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Original message:999 days 10 hours 26 minutes ago

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Member: ballboy622

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Hey who else around here plays jazz?

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Reply:995 days 1 hours 43 minutes ago
Member: jttrussler

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I most certainly do.

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Reply:994 days 22 hours 23 minutes ago
Member: Jason

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Me to!

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Reply:994 days 13 hours 18 minutes ago
Member: Hetjr

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hey post yer jazzes!!!!

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Reply:935 days 11 hours 29 minutes ago
Member: DanPeck

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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.

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Reply:931 days 21 hours 26 minutes ago
Member: Captain Fantastic

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I love the Bad Plus. ¡Ustedes son fantastico!

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I enjoy skinny skiing, heckling figure skaters, flamenco guitar, the blue stuff you put your combs in, good drummers, focaccia bread and coffee out of a french press

Reply:930 days 16 hours 29 minutes ago
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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

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Reply:928 days 14 hours 58 minutes ago
Member: DanPeck

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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?

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Reply:926 days 10 hours 29 minutes ago
Member: danvan

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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

Reply:925 days 2 hours 24 minutes ago
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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.

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only half-joking actually
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Reply:924 days 23 hours 12 minutes ago
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cool!

Reply:924 days 14 hours 37 minutes ago
Member: DanPeck

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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.

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Reply:923 days 20 hours 9 minutes ago
Member: Zombre

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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"...

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Reply:923 days 9 hours 1 minutes ago
Member: DanPeck

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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.

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Reply:920 days 18 hours 6 minutes ago
Member: Rary

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My jazz tastes are a bit more like Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Art Tatum, Joe Pass, and Stanley Jordan.
I wish I could play jazz, and I certainly love the music, but I don't know what it is, anything I try to jazz up, ends up sounding either like garbage, or like a blues song.
Maybe it's my chords or something. Or my lack of theory. Or the fact that I only have 1 guitar, and it's hard to "get into it" playing jazz on a Jackson Flying V.
It could also just be the pants that I'm wearing.

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Reply:918 days 10 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: Kevin

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I try to play jazz. I play some miles davis songs and things, but I wouldn't say that I'm a jazz virtuoso

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Reply:915 days 8 hours 20 minutes ago
Member: Godly Moose

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I'm just starting to learn to play the Jazz, and in my opinion Jazz theory > Classical theory.

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Reply:914 days 9 minutes ago
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Here is a sweet video for The Bas Plus's most recent album Prog. Now this is serving a duo role as serving as an interesting commentary of jazz as a whole, and giving a taste of what one of the freshest jazz groups out there is about. If you aren't finding the video that interesting at least check it out at about 6:30 for one of the most ridiculous thing you will ever hear.

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Reply:914 days 1 minutes ago
Member: DanPeck

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and here is an example of some of the more "progressive" jazz that out there. John Zorn doesn't believe in playing music in styles/genres, and his influences come from circus music and cartoons. So yea he is a strange cookie and I defiantly don't really like his style, but it is still interesting to check out. Just count how many "styles" he uses in this one song alone.

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Reply:912 days 8 hours 30 minutes ago
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I think at it's heart, jazz is about communication and the conversation. If one is being totally honest with their playing and trying to express themself, it will come across as great jazz. Technique then becomes secondary. People like Bill Frisell have both a unique voice and complete technical/theoretical control of their instruments. We often loose sight of the gist of the conversation because we are so blown away by their technical virtuosity. Then us mere mortals come along and try to play and it can sound corny. In my opinion, the way around that is to take a concept and develop it, rather than try to completely emulate what has already been done. If I try to sound exactly like Bill, it will be lame, but if I learn from his contributions to the field and then apply them to my own concept of playing, it will hopefully sound kinda cool.

Speaking of unique conversations, check out my recommendation for "The Ultimate Adventure." Jazz meets flamenco meets middle eastern music meets dance.

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