Image via WikipediaScantily clad lovelies singing "all that jazz" is as much jazz as a sterilized safety pin is punk.
Jazz is punker than punk. It isn't rebellious for the sake of it, it is ignoring any rule that stands between the musician and the music.
Jazz is surfing the seventh wave, improvising on a surge of nature that supports me but will feel nothing if it spits me off it's face. It is surfing at dawn, no competition, the audience that can take the cold is welcome, and welcome to join me on the wave.
Jazz is the Tao, dharma, the spirit of the day, it is style but not fashion. It is the roar of the sports crowd, the silence of the night, the rhythm of sex, the groove of the city. Jazz is the fearless life, the fearless death. Jazz will go wrong on occasion, depending on the definition of wrong.
Jazz is a harsh mistress but in the mutually consented fun way. Jazz is being truly alive for one moment so I know what it feels like, so my daily life can strive for the same reality. Timeless, ageless, flowing with the universe.
I hope that clears it up.
Parkstreet.
http://www.kentparkstreetblog.com/
4 comments:
What a fantastic description.... jazz is the heartbeat of the city and when those players rant and rave it inspires artists to paint and poets to write.... although I am a humble singer of the idiom. I tell the stories and feel the emotion of the lyrics, the melodies take you some where else but the instrumentalists thrill you with their emotion and passion there is nothing like a hot Jazz band . Check out Mark Fitzgibbon with David Rex at Bennetts lane sometime... The Jazz lover x
Thanks man, love Bennet's Lane, haven't been there in years. There's no venue anything like it here in Sydney.
Kent Parkstreet.
Jazz is a fossilised musical form played by know-all tossers of all ages, and it's the flatulence of the showing off by over-dextrous wankers who wouldn't know a groove if they were boned up the date in 4/4 that will condemn it to the dustbin of history!!!
Funny how the angry and opinionated are always anonymous. Jazz can be cool and uncool, the real jazz evolves and stays current, if you have the crap taste to choose to listen to nostalgia music that's your problem.
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