Hey AJers,
The arguement made for why "Jazz is Dead" is based on criteria that could be
applied to alot of other genera of music. For example we can say that D n B
is dead for most of the same reasons - lack of
innovation,predictability....than we listen to P'Taah!. One of the
arguements presented was that if jazz isin't changing, then it must be dead
or dying, deviating, moving sideways. Well, I think that this prognosis is
inevitable once we place bounaries on what "Jazz", or any genera for that
matter, *is*. Once we difine what makes jazz, any deviation will be seen
as a change and there for not necessarily jazz anymore.
But the author also uses a linear model of the life and death of music. i
don;t particularly agree w/ this linear model. I think music evolves more
like a bush than a line and much like all else in evolutionary terms, a
change does not necessarily affect the whole creature. There are
evolutionary signs of Jazz is many forms of music. So, I would not say that
music that uses electronica, sampling, ect is *not* jazz any more. It's
Nu-Jazz. I like to think of it more in positive evolutionary terms than in
negative terms of extinction. It is my belief that all things on this
planet - animals, humans, life, cells, bacteria, music, theories,
phenomena....are based on this premise - that which is built up, will be
broken down, then re-built again.....but that's just - my 2 cents
joni
>From: Tristan Ferne <tristanferne@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Kind of Blah
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:04:03 +0100 (BST)
>
>An article on the future of jazz...
>
>http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1682
>
>
>Tristan
>
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