what got you out of jazz?

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― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The bonecrushing firm of Crouch and Marsalis Inc.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm not 'into' jazz enough to be back out of it again. but coltrane is an offputter

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

just the concept of being 'into jazz' makes me shiver.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure I was ever really into it or am now of it, but I think going to see Charles Gayle was a turning point. My reaction was kind of like, "I really don't like this free jazz stuff as much as I thought I did." (On the other hand, three of the CDs I most want to buy at the moment are jazz, and only one is by Sun Ra.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"just the concept of being 'into jazz' makes me shiver"

I can understand why you might say that Michael - in fact it sounds like the sort of thing I would have said myself once upon a time ("I'm a punk rocker, why would I want to listen to old farts music?!") but I suspect that it's your concept of what jazz is or signifies that's the problem here.

You'll come 'round to it eventually....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Out of jazz in the sense of bop redux ad nauseum: The cult of chops.
Out of out jazz: The cult of "chops don't mean shit, maaaaan."

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

still plenty of 'free' stuff to get into: but marsalis and all would prob say it ain't jazz.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Partisans, purists, snobs and tradders.

I'm sorry that Gareth finds Coltrane 'offputting', 'cos those harsh, 'monumental' improv marathons are only part of the story - a lot of his recs are melodic, swinging, v. approachable and beautiful, too.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny, seeing and hearing Gayle for the first time got me more into jazz than I was previously.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Bitches Brew

― g (graysonlane), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

that ain't jazz g!

― w marsalis (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

if anything those harsh improv marathons broke down the "monumental" aura around coltrane that was putting me off

― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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