What's The Deal With Jazz?
My hands automatically clench into fists when I hear someone scatting.
3. Because this is all I hear when I listen to jazz.
4. The thing is, jazz songs never GO anywhere.
They're just interminable noodling!
5. And just when you think you've reached the end of a song, IT STARTS OVER.
It's like visiting a special part of hell where everyone has a goatee and is holding a brass instrument.
6. And how can anyone truly take scatting seriously? Are you people for real?
8. They sometimes have hair like this, which is terrible for everyone involved.
9. And guess what they put on top of it? FEDORAS.
Jazz Guys account for, like, 74 percent of all fedora wearers, which basically makes them criminals in the rest of the world's eyes.
10. Not even Muppets can get away with jazzin' out.
And Muppets make EVERYTHING good! Well, everything else.
11. But really, the worst part of despising jazz is when people say, "No, no, you just haven't heard the good stuff! Blah blah blah Miles Davis Charles Mingus blah blah blerg."
Actually, I have. I have, and I hate it. So stop trying to convince me otherwise, you sax-loving freaks.
12. In closing, if this is your idea of a good time, then please don't invite me to your improv jam.
I think I'll stick to music with actual structure, thankyouverymuch.
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Tomer1224 a day agoI find this article is quite loaded without an in depth look into the music genre itself because without jazz, we wouldn't have most, in not all, of the music genres that we have today. If it wasn't for jazz, we wouldn't have King Crimson's “In the Court of the Crimson King,” or A Tribe Called Quest's “The Low End Theory.” I know that jazz does not appeal to everyone for much better reasons than “Oh, it's annoying”. If you, Amy Rose Siegel, took the time and dedication to look into the subject, like an actual journalist should, maybe you will realize that without jazz, we wouldn't have blues, country, rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, or any other modern music genre. Then maybe after you realize the error of your ways you will rename your article to “Jazz Can Be Boring: But It Is Still Significant”.
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koenvand a day agoJazz isn't good or bad, pretty or ugly. Its a way of looking at music, a way of expressing yourself and a way to grow as a musician.
The best jazz artists in a sense went further than artists in other genres to find their own musical voice. This makes it much harder to listen to if your ear is not developed. But precisely because it is harder, the treasure is greater once you 'get' it. Ofcourse people will use this to be pretentious, but that doesnt make jazz itself pretentious. Is quantum mechanics pretentious because its hard and you dont get it? -
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