Jazz Lovers: What Makes You Love Jazz?

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For me - the nuances, the interplay between musicians & improvisation.

― Jimmy Parker, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I love their cover art!

*hiccup*

― gage o (gage o), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Same as everything. An unanswerable question.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Well for one thing, I think it makes me appreciate music as music, or at least someone's musicianship. I mean, when I hear Art Tatum change keys four times in the space of two bars, or Charlie Parker begin all these imaginative phrases at unexpected moments on "Koko," it's thrilling.
Although there are many great musicians in rock and roll, that's not why I listen. In fact, guitar solos longer than 20 seconds bore the hell out of me.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the freedom!!!!

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The interplay between the musicians is what's key for me.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I can't stand silence at the dinner table, obv.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Harmonic complexity, while retaining beauty. I prefer large-ensemble, thoroughly composed pieces. Some of the chords and voicings you hear in great large-ensemble pieces seem like the beginning and end of all auditory experience at the time they transpire.

― southern lights (southern lights), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The possibility that anything can happen, the rhythmic feel, and the attention to personal tone (and the naturalistic environment/aesthetic that makes that possible...it's unbelieve how much frequency room distorted guitars take up, and how much detail can come out in everything else when they're not there).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Improvising ppl!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Jazz songs never fucking get out of my head.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

because albert ayler rocks like a bastard.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Herbie Hancock said something about how jazz musicians can take nothing and make something out of it. Thats what I like about jazz. Two notes repeated in some strange way can become a song.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Some things I like about jazz:

- not always the same old chord progressions
- sonic adventurousness, experimentation, playfulness
- cats who can really play
- willing to be difficult
- serious about the music
- not needing lyrics to make a statement
- the rhythm, baby

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

syncopations and dynamic range

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the musicianship aspect doesn't interest me at all...
(well obviously if they weren't good musicians i probably wouldn't like it,but i mean i don't listen to it and think "thats an interesting key change" or whatever...i have no idea what a key change is)
the sound of the various instruments weaving in and out of each other is great,i suppose that would be the "interplay between musicians"

― robin (robin), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that it's genreally unpredictable. A pop song you've never heard before, you can usually guess the next line*, musically & sometimes lyrically. Jazz music throws a few more suprises** - so it requires a bit more brain power to listen***.

* OK, not always - not looking for a fight here.
** OK, not always - not looking for a fight here.
*** OK, not always - not looking for a fight here.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

''cats who can really play''

one of the other things i like is that the question of who can play? what's he/she saying? has been explored quite a bit in jazz than in other strictly composed musics.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the absence of vocals.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hiding in some bushes playing a saxophone

― bob snoom, Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The history and the individuality inherent in improvisation.

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

- not always the same old chord progressions

ii-V-I?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 9 October 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, II-V-I, I-IV-V, V-I - the standard pop/rock/folk progressions. Of course, there are plenty of jazz tunes that use them, but even when they use them, they're more apt to throw in unusual voicings, or a VI or a some more unusual changes. There are also many styles of jazz (modal, free jazz, etc.) that dispense with the standard changes altogether.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 October 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a freak for jazz drumming -- old-style and free.

― Clarke B. (stolenbus), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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