Jazz/Rock/R&B Analogies

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So I picked a few major jazz figures, and tried to think of an analogue from rock or R&B. Some of the associations are based on historical role or something else substantive, but most are impressionistic. Some are just lame, and should be amended. Hundreds more could be made. The same exercise could be done using jazz and hip-hop, for example, or any two genres you like. Since there is no rock or R&B Armstrong, I got off to a rough start. And then I started to lose interest before I got to any current or even recent stuff from either genre.

Louis Armstrong = Chuck Berry
Louis Armstrong + Paul Whiteman = Elvis Presley
Louis Armstrong = Little Richard
Louis Armstrong = Zeus
Duke Ellington = Ray Charles
Count Basie = James Brown
Lester Young = The Beach Boys
Coleman Hawkins = Sam Cooke
Mary Lou Williams = John Cale
Charlie Parker = The Beatles
Dizzy Gillespie = The Rolling Stones
Thelonious Monk = Bob Dylan
Miles Davis = James Brown
Miles Davis = Neil Young
Miles Davis = Miles Davis
Bill Evans = Nick Drake
Sonny Rollins = Aretha Franklin
Ornette Coleman = Velvet Underground
Wayne Shorter = The Kinks
Elmo Hope = Nick Drake
Sun Ra = George Clinton
Henry Threadgill = Frank Zappa
Wynton Marsalis = Tom Petty

dylan (dylan), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ornette Coleman = Velvet Underground

other than Lou Reed's declared affection for Coleman's music, what do these two have in common?

hstencil, Friday, 13 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I don't really like that one, but as I said, most of these are impressionistic. But superficially, Coleman and the V.U.' music has a similar mix of beaty and dissonance (not that that's unusual, but the level of dissonance was), and both opened up possibilities for various crazy shit. Monk woudldn't be a bad V.U. comparison, in that it took about ten years for his ideas to be embraced by more than a few.

dylan (dylan), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)


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