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From: mwood5nospam on 3 Oct 2005 16:42 I was just searching for some older topics and I ran across a few of the "what's the pinnacle year for rock and roll" and stuff like that and it got me to thinking.... What year, and or, what even caused the death of jazz. Another twist would be, what's the pinnacle year for jazz. later, m
From: Jay Kadis on 3 Oct 2005 17:00 In article <1128372140.393491.68700(a)g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, mwood5nospam(a)yahoo.com wrote: > I was just searching for some older topics and I ran across a few of > the "what's the pinnacle year for rock and roll" and stuff like that > and it got me to thinking.... > What year, and or, what even caused the death of jazz. Another twist > would be, what's the pinnacle year for jazz. > > later, > m > Jazz isn't dead, it's just stunned. But frankly I don't think any type of music "dies". We may not see much jazz in the broadcast media, but there are plenty of jazz clubs and a vital albeit small scene in this area (SF bay area). The Berkeley Jazz school is alive and well as is the Stanford Summer Jazz program, which draws young jazz enthusiasts from around the country every summer. Yoshi's is one of the hottest clubs in the area. Lots of aging rockers seem to be pursuing jazz and standards as a retirement exercise. I bet jazz is in for a resurrection, although it somewhat depends on your definition of jazz... -Jay -- x------- Jay Kadis ------- x---- Jay's Attic Studio ------x x Lecturer, Audio Engineer x Dexter Records x x CCRMA, Stanford University x http://www.offbeats.com/ x x---------- http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jay/ ------------x
From: Iain Fraser on 3 Oct 2005 17:35 jazz is far from dead - jazz is fairly big in outside the U.S. "Jay Kadis" <jay(a)ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote in message news:jay-A703F1.14004803102005(a)news.stanford.edu... > In article <1128372140.393491.68700(a)g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, > mwood5nospam(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> I was just searching for some older topics and I ran across a few of >> the "what's the pinnacle year for rock and roll" and stuff like that >> and it got me to thinking.... >> What year, and or, what even caused the death of jazz. Another twist >> would be, what's the pinnacle year for jazz. >> >> later, >> m >> > > Jazz isn't dead, it's just stunned. > > But frankly I don't think any type of music "dies". We may not see much > jazz in > the broadcast media, but there are plenty of jazz clubs and a vital albeit > small > scene in this area (SF bay area). The Berkeley Jazz school is alive and > well as > is the Stanford Summer Jazz program, which draws young jazz enthusiasts > from > around the country every summer. Yoshi's is one of the hottest clubs in > the > area. Lots of aging rockers seem to be pursuing jazz and standards as a > retirement exercise. I bet jazz is in for a resurrection, although it > somewhat > depends on your definition of jazz... > > -Jay > -- > x------- Jay Kadis ------- x---- Jay's Attic Studio ------x > x Lecturer, Audio Engineer x Dexter Records x > x CCRMA, Stanford University x http://www.offbeats.com/ x > x---------- http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jay/ ------------x
From: Agent 86 on 3 Oct 2005 19:42 On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:00:48 -0700, Jay Kadis wrote: >it somewhat depends on your definition of jazz... Well therein lies the rub, doesn't it. Somewhere in the 70s, somebody decided that the word "jazz" would be a good marketing catch phrase to sell instrumental easy listening dreck that had previously been known as "elevator music" or "dentist office music". Sadly, a few real jazz players bought into this charade, & started turning out radio friendly material that I'll just refer to as "lighter fare" (a polite term that I use here only because one of the best known offenders was George Benson, who had previously been one of my favorites) because it looked like it might give them a bigger & more mainstream (commercial) audience than they could hope for otherwise. And if you can bring yourself to call "Breezin" jazz, then it's only a little bit of a stretch to Kenny G. And if Kenny G. can be called Jazz under any circumstances, then Jazz is truly dead IMO.
From: banjaxed on 3 Oct 2005 20:10
On 3 Oct 2005 13:42:20 -0700, mwood5nospam(a)yahoo.com wrote: >I was just searching for some older topics and I ran across a few of >the "what's the pinnacle year for rock and roll" and stuff like that >and it got me to thinking.... >What year, and or, what even caused the death of jazz. 1971 The year Satchmo died |