I most certainly do.

Me to!

hey post yer jazzes!!!!

Jazz FTW! What artists are you guys really into? I am biased towards Jaco and such but i have really been digging The Bad Plus and Thelonious Monk as of late.

I love the Bad Plus. ¡Ustedes son fantastico!

Jazz plays me... I like it, but when I play it it.... Becomes something else. Something big, green and angry with lots of swepies! lol

O no it sounds like you have discovered the jazz monster! And when i say monster i mean that evil thing called improvising. I always laugh when i meet a ripping technical musician who can read anything notated, but when a lead sheet is put in front of them they fall apart. The issue isn't that they aren't good they just lack the proper theory, something that i also lack a good deal of. What was the hardest concept for you all to master about theory?

Hey, I love playing jazz. Mostly stuff from the old fake books and New Real Book.
I've always loved music theory, I think applying the theory to my playing is the hardest part. The best way to do this is to get down and analyze these old tunes, realize why a certain thing sounds the way it sounds.
I have always loved improvising, jamming with others is my favorite thing to do...yeehaw

Isn't Jazz that type of music where people play all 12 notes regardless of concepts of key, chord, "in tune" etc ? How the hell can you possibly complain you can't play it? Any note you use is as good as any other.



joking



only half-joking actually
;P

cool!

There are not really wrong notes in jazz (I mean if you are playing the head and you substitute notes in at your fancy that is normally frowned upon), only wrong resolutions.

Well, if it sounds bad, then it probably is... lol There's a certain level of control and deliberation, right?
Check Holdsworth out... He's a bit outside at moments, but never out of tune, and everything sounds "right"...

There isn't really a line. If you played a classical composer any rock, jazz, or hip-hop tune from the modern day they would have said its out of tune and terrible. (As a side not it would have been out of tune because they had a slightly different tuning standard then we do. And also other kinds of music from different cultures works on different tuning standards anyway) There will always be progressives so in styles styles like John Zorn and Naked City, and John Cage it sounds like complete madness and garbage, but that could be the future. Give it one appreciative listen and hen pass on.