How to Like Jazz: A Guide for the Casual and Curious-With Listening Course
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2024
- How to Like Jazz: A Guide for the Casual and Curious - With Listening Course
Love the idea of Jazz? Hate the sound of it? Like some but not others? Imagine yourself as a 30s gumshoe detective, but can’t get into the soundtrack?
Let me help iron out your Jazz wrinkles and set you on the path to full-blown jazz headedness. No snobbiness, no gatekeeping, just good music.
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Love the inclusion of Soft Machine in the video
I find the jazz standard endlessly fascinating. Find one, do a search, and then compare all the different ways the same song can be performed across time and space.
Take "Body and Soul". It's been performed by vocalists, pianists, saxophonists, you name it, from the moment it was composed in 1930 up to now. Every era of jazz, chances are high some major artist recorded "Body and Soul."
what a gem of a video, thanks for the recommendations! jazz funk fusion is the only thing i’ve really been listening to out of ignorance or the older stuff
Thank you! Nothing wrong with some jazz funk fusion 👌
Good video, I’m going into precollege for Jazz guitar this year and I agree with everything you . Yes, tackling jazz is very challenging at first if you didn’t grow up with the stuff.
One thing that helped it click for me (It’s mentioned in a “How to listen to jazz” by Ted Gioia) is that in a Bebop standard, the melody is always “there” as in, you can follow the form of you know the head.
I also think there’s a lot of complexity in music all around us that we don’t dig into. If you’re into broadway, or bossa nova… even if you listen to ray charles, he’s doing all sorts of chord stuff, not just the 12 bar blues… I don’t even need to mention Stevie wonder…
Paying attention to all that stuff, you can see the jazz was always there
A big one for me was also Steely Dan. Albums like the royal scam and Aja are so incredibly groovy, you can get hooked on them without it feeling like you need to pay attention to the harmony.
I think my first time transcribing a bebop solo was maybe a bit too early… don’t worry about all that, you’ll find something you liked and not everything has to be Parker or Coltrane (or even sun gazed for that matter haha)
Ultimately, there’s no roadmap for listening to jazz because it’s just you living your life and digging what you dig.
(That was a ramble lol)
Anyway great video
What a great perspective! Good luck in your studies!
I'm a pedestrian when it comes to jazz guitar, so mad respect for going into it at an academic level.
I absolutely agree about the musical complexity we don't notice-I also find that some musicians who have little formal training sometimes end up writing bizarrely complicated music(like older blues stuff, where some players are just plucking away through odd times, unexpected voicings and intentionally unsatisfying microtonal bends).
Also, any comment that mentions Aja gets an automatic heart.
I know you recently did City Pop, so this should probably get pushed down for a reserve idea for later, but it would be cool to learn more about Shibuya-kei in one of your videos. Ive enjoyed each of your videos so far, thanks!
Thank you! I'll definitely be doing more videos about Japanese music scenes/genres-that's not a bad idea!
Brilliant video and a very necessary one, too. For me, jazz is a musical problem that I have to solve as I go along - but I do come at it from the POV of someone who has a (very) basic grasp of theory.
My 12, for anyone that's interested:
Any recording of Louis Armstrongs 5's or 7's. Much as Satch was the summary of everything that comes before him, most everything that comes after him is post hic ergo propter hoc.'
A Decent Duke Ellington Sampler that covers 1929 - 1945. Duke to me is the genuine genius of American popular music
Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio - Lester Young, for me, is the king of the tenor men
The Genius of Charlie Parker #3 "Now's The Time"
Monk's Music Thelonious Monk - this is adventurous and still mad fun
I'm with you on Time Out, it's astonishing and fun
Duke Ellington at Newport - best live album, evah!
Giant Steps John Coltrane - Trane's getting out there, but there's still a tune to hum
Bill Evans Trio 64
Oliver Nelson The Blues and The Abstract Truth
Miles Smiles Miles Davis - Everyone says Kind of Blue, but I'm more impressed by this one (Kind of Blue only finished at #5 on my Miles Davis worst to best video). Tony Williams puts in an amazing, sustained performance.
Out To Lunch Eric Dolphy - about as free as I like my jazz to get
Ambrose Akinmusire On The Tender Spor of every calloused moment - there's a bit too much "production" for entirely my liking, but good heavens this man can play
Those are all fantastic recommendations! I'm glad to see someone else likes a little Dolphy now and then-Out to Lunch is such an incredible album.
I'm going to throw on Miles Smiles today as well, thanks for the reminder.
To anyone who finds this comment^ and is looking for more great Jazz, this guy's list is an extremely well thought out package with some of the very best.
@@CharcuterieSound Except I forgot Lady In Satin 🙂
I got into jazz because my friends are amateur jazz musicians. Because of them, I went to some jazz clubs and jam sessions. At the beginning, I really disliked it because it sounded to messy. I thought it was only music for old rich men. As time went on, I started to appreciate it and found out some standards or sub genres I like. The people who are into jazz are just nerds and genuinely nice. I met some gatekeepers, but that’s more the exception than the rule.
Nice nerds and a few gatekeepers-very true. It's funny how it's seen as a rich guy's genre now as it started as working class music! Thanks for sharing your experience :)
Im here for it
Fantastic video! I’ll be checking out your recommendations!
Happy listening!
Nice subject
Cool video
Great channel
Thank you!
Great video!
Thanks!
Nice video man, great job. Maybe you could make a playlist on spotify or UA-cam with all your recommendations, it would be nice
Thats a good idea! Honestly, I've been thinking about doing that but I'm hesitant to endorse one streaming platform over another-but I think I'll cave because it's just too convenient. Cheers!
I like cool jazz, some bop and swing, free jazz, fusion and smooth jazz... but traditional jazz makes me feel like i'm watching an old silent movie and i can't get into it
Fair enough! Pre-improv Jazz isn't as exciting to me either.
@@CharcuterieSoundbefore the big bands became popular, jazz was mostly improv - Ragtime, Stride and the collective improvisation of “Dixieland”
Please do death metal next
Ouuu, that's a good idea.
Oh wow, I just listened to Snarky Puppy's first track and had this wave of frisson. Great stuff, on my to listen list!
I didn't recognize Slide Five until I heard KC Doppler (Thievery Corporation remix) which was very popular during my "Buddha Bar" years of the late 90s - could you do a review of trip-hop / downtempo / electronic lounge?
My jazz contribution would be Tenorio Jnr "Embalo" album - music.ua-cam.com/video/wvYwz4R-tl4/v-deo.html. I came across this after watching your Bossa Nova video, and stumbled onto this as Tenorio's life was turned into a animated documentary (They Shot the Piano Player).
Thanks again!
There's just so much great electronic music from that era. Trip-hop is on my to-do list already! I appreciate the reco-I'll check it out!
Love the video! I myself really take a liking to jazz, I was just curious to understand why people wouldn't like the genre.
I now know more reasons why people don't like Jazz than I ever wanted to know.