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Originally Posted by KenG
Ok I have decided that I'm going to start with Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme first, and then let's see what come next.
I can see now, that I was a little not well informed about what jazz were. I thought it was all about feelings and emotions.
I'm starting to understand now, but I still have some few questions if you don't mind.
You said that everything but the melody in Jazz is improvised. Are you referring to jazz songs that have melody are not improvised or as melody being part of the song and the only thing that's not improvised?
Another question, do you think I can change my tastes? If I have been listening to some music almost all my life and then suddenly everyone is telling me that what I like really sucks. I'm still in a little shock here but can I change?
Who are the Grasshoppas and what they do? What is The Ultimate Horror?
And my last question would be about the subgenres you were talking about, that seems to be really interesting. Can you give a further explanation of each one of it? Oh and with some examples of artists and albums if it's not much asking?
Thanks in advance Satch, and everyone else that have posted in here too.
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1. Ask as many questions as you want. You can't learn much of anything in this world without asking in one way or another. Your questions don't even have to be limited to
Jazz or
music for that matter.
2. You can find feelings/emotion in every single genre of music.
3. Ok, what I meant is that in most of the
sub-genres of
Jazz you will have written/composed parts for the
melody (which is called
The Head in
Jazz) of the song/composition and than the solos are left up to the musicians to create for the recording/performance.
In something like
Free Improvisiation there is no written parts. The musicians just start creating what is being heard as it happens. In some cases they don't even discuss with each other what they're going to play or how.
4.
Jazz just like
Blues,
Classical,
Rock, or any genre of music has several
sub-genres; however, a very basic and
I mean a very basic evolution of
Jazz over the years would be....
New Orleans
Dixieland
Swing/Big Band
Bop
Cool Jazz
Hard Bop
Post Bop
Avant-Garde
Free Jazz
Free Improv
Kind of Blue would be
Hard Bop/
Post Bop meets
Modal.
A Love Supreme would be
Hard Bop/
Avant-Garde meets
Modal and with a touch of
Free Jazz.
5. You think everyone here had the tastes they have now? Those with any real clue will have their minds and ears open....and it's no different to in anything in life to be honest. As
Grasshoppa jazzfromhell mentioned....when young
Grasshoppa Geryon showed up he was
12 or 13 and thought Slipknot was the shiznit. (OG Satchmo in
DA House. I would like to give a shout out to my homies on the
East/West/North/South side. Peace out.)
Only close minded people stay in a
static state.
6.
Grasshoppa is what I consider all of you to be. If you ever watched the
Old School tv show
Kung Fu you would understand it better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGy_82awSPM 
The Grasshoppas are all trying to take the pebble from Satchmo's hand....but
still haven't done so.
P.S. A good bit of advise on discovering great musicians/recordings....is to keep track of the sidemen on the recordings which catch your attention. Most of them will be found on multiple recordings and eventually go on to become leaders in their own right. For example, a who's who of greats were sideman for
Miles Davis before going on to lead bands of their own.
For example...
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane
Bill Evans
Hank Mobley
Wayne Shorter
Herbie Hancock
Tony Williams
Sam Rivers
Keith Jarrett
Each of those have had greats as sideman as well....and
Miles started out as a sideman for
DA BIRD as in
Charlie Parker.
You're welcome.
