[78-L] Jazz--was: Introduction (a bit long)

[Bart]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bart" <garioch at texas.net>
> <snip> Somewhere along jazz's long history it
>   
>> seems to have become a music that's more fun to play than to listen to.
>> But to each their own.
>>
>>     
> Basically, the original point of jazz was to disregard written-out scores,
> instead playing whatever seemed to fit the chords of the tunes! As it
> continued to evolve, it continued to try discarding more and more
> "givens" of music...eventually becoming a completely "structure-
> free" form of music (assuming such is even possible?!)
>
> IMHO, this is no longer noticeably different from "noise" made
> using musical instruments...?! That is, they not only "threw the
> baby out with the bath water"...they also threw out the tub
> and tore down the bathroom...?!
>
> ...stevenc
>   
While I try hard to resist the normal human tendency to regard my 
opinion as being what your opinion *ought* to be, and remember that 
others may see things differently, yours above is precisely how I see it 
too.  Our local NPR affiliate, and another listener supported local 
station play a good deal of current jazz, and no matter that I love the 
jazz sound of the twenties and somewhat beyond most of the modern stuff 
seems unlistenable to me.

Bart