On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:11:32AM -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Atte Andr? Jensen <atte@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fast bebop is almost even 8ths :-) > > yes! you have no idea how long it took me to figure this out. and I > agree with your earlier statement that Bach sounds better when played > straight. > > I think too many people think jazz = swing. I'm not even going to > attempt to define jazz, but I think restricting it to only swing is > wrong. > > also, I hear a lot of complicated harmonies implied by even the > simplest of bach's pieces (as you said, b9, etc.). I guess to him > they were all passing tones...but I guess they are to us, too. > > I'm getting dangerously close to spitting opinions on things and > revealing my ignorance here, but in my mind, bach is what jazz > could/should grow up to be, that is if it hasn't already. > > tl;dr - bach would dig charlie parker :) > Fictionary is almost all straight 8ths, and that's some fantastic complex jazz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTvXg5P7t0 So is all the jazz/funk fusion magic of the 70s. Definitely jazz, but it's not swing for sure. To drift off topic even further: it took me a while to figure out that the "secret sauce" of Medeski, Martin, and Wood, is Billy Martin's hinting at swing by accenting upbeats. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
