Comments on: Jazz… an endangered species. Should we care? http://www.ydig.us/jazz-an-endangered-species-or-maybe-already-extinct-should-we-care/ dig to understand, to know, to be aware of, to enjoy, to be hip to Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.ydig.us/jazz-an-endangered-species-or-maybe-already-extinct-should-we-care/comment-page-1/#comment-168 admin Wed, 13 May 2009 10:10:34 +0000 http://www.ydig.us/?p=903#comment-168 Thanks Tom, Last weekend, 15 High School Jazz bands from all over the USA competed at the Lincoln Center, the standard was excellent according to those who attended. I think you are 100% right. Thanks Tom,

Last weekend, 15 High School Jazz bands from all over the USA competed at the Lincoln Center, the standard was excellent according to those who attended. I think you are 100% right.

]]> By: Tom http://www.ydig.us/jazz-an-endangered-species-or-maybe-already-extinct-should-we-care/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Tom Wed, 13 May 2009 06:25:14 +0000 http://www.ydig.us/?p=903#comment-167 If the young people of today are not exposed to anything outside of their particular genres of popular music, then to them, jazz is just an artifact of a bygone era of which they were not a part. If they hear an improvisation but don't know the original tune, then the genius of the players is lost on them... it's just "too many notes". When I started listening to jazz at the age of fifteen, I had already studied European classical music for some 11 years and was looking for something more "fun" but which was also more sophisticated than the 1, 4 and 5 chords of pop and so many folk forms. I think it was because of growing up in a musical family and having received a musical education that it wasn't difficult to gain an appreciation of jazz. Improvisation is what is so exciting about jazz but is missing from western classical music as it is performed today. I'm sure many of the great composers could extemporaneously compose pieces - certainly Bach and Mozart were of that caliber. Just listened to Dominick Farinacci on MySpace. Amazing player. Shades of Miles Davis and the cool period. Thanks for the link. Tom If the young people of today are not exposed to anything outside of their particular genres of popular music, then to them, jazz is just an artifact of a bygone era of which they were not a part. If they hear an improvisation but don’t know the original tune, then the genius of the players is lost on them… it’s just “too many notes”.

When I started listening to jazz at the age of fifteen, I had already studied European classical music for some 11 years and was looking for something more “fun” but which was also more sophisticated than the 1, 4 and 5 chords of pop and so many folk forms. I think it was because of growing up in a musical family and having received a musical education that it wasn’t difficult to gain an appreciation of jazz.

Improvisation is what is so exciting about jazz but is missing from western classical music as it is performed today. I’m sure many of the great composers could extemporaneously compose pieces – certainly Bach and Mozart were of that caliber.

Just listened to Dominick Farinacci on MySpace. Amazing player. Shades of Miles Davis and the cool period. Thanks for the link.

Tom

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