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Rock is all inclusive... you can be a rock band and do "some Jazz" and folks love it...

Same with all styles, Rock opens its arms and it is accepted, Celtic, blues, country, even RAP.

Rock is music's melting pot.

What style of Jazz do you want me to play? or What style of jazz are you loking for?


Acid jazz
Acid blues
Afro-jazz
Asian American jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Bebop
Calypso jazz
Cape jazz
Chamber jazz
Continental Jazz
Crossover jazz
Cubop
Ethno jazz
European free jazz
Free funk
Free jazz
Gypsy jazz
Jazz fusion
Jazz blues
Jazz rap
Jazz-funk
Kansas City blues (music)
Kansas City jazz
Latin jazz
List of jazz fusion recordings
Livetronica
M-Base
Mainstream jazz
Mini-jazz
Modal jazz
Modern Creative
Neo-bop jazz
Nu jazz
Orchestral jazz
Post-bop
Postmodern fusion
Progressive jazz
Punk jazz
List of scat singers
Shibuya-kei
Ska jazz
Smooth jazz
Soul jazz
Spank jazz
Splab
Straight-ahead jazz
Stride (music)
Swing music
Third stream
Trad jazz
Urban jazz
Vocal jazz
West Coast Gypsy jazz
West Coast jazz

Don't forget cum jazz... oh wait, nevermind, sorry, i'm leaving now

What style of Jazz do you want me to play? or What style of jazz are you loking for?


Acid jazz
Acid blues
Afro-jazz
Asian American jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Bebop
Calypso jazz
Cape jazz
Chamber jazz
Continental Jazz
Crossover jazz
Cubop
Ethno jazz
European free jazz
Free funk
Free jazz
Gypsy jazz
Jazz fusion
Jazz blues
Jazz rap
Jazz-funk
Kansas City blues (music)
Kansas City jazz
Latin jazz
List of jazz fusion recordings
Livetronica
M-Base
Mainstream jazz
Mini-jazz
Modal jazz
Modern Creative
Neo-bop jazz
Nu jazz
Orchestral jazz
Post-bop
Postmodern fusion
Progressive jazz
Punk jazz
List of scat singers
Shibuya-kei
Ska jazz
Smooth jazz
Soul jazz
Spank jazz
Splab
Straight-ahead jazz
Stride (music)
Swing music
Third stream
Trad jazz
Urban jazz
Vocal jazz
West Coast Gypsy jazz
West Coast jazz

You mean there are genre's of jazz that are not from New Orleans???

Man, do I feel stupid!

WB

You mean there are genre's of jazz that are not from New Orleans???

Man, do I feel stupid!

WB

Did someone say party at New Orleans! Now this is entertainment at its best.......only in NEW ORLEANS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHlHt7Djcg0

I can listen to New Orleans Jazz, ocassionaly, but it's definitely not my thing . . .
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BTW, add to that list of styles of jazz: two very general clasifications of jazz which I often use in conversation:
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COOL Jazz
HOT Jazz.
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My Song "Half-Jazzed Blues" I'd refer to as hot Jazz. It's a pretty active song.
Listen to it, and picture (in your mind) 5 people performing it, you'll see . . .
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I'll upload another jazz song onto my profile in a few minutes, of cool jazz.
It's a kinda rough version - on my list of "songs to re-record better, when I get the time."

The rhythms aren't quite up to my specifications, but it's a pretty good example of what I call cool jazz.
The name of the song is .
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(pregnant pause)
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"Cool, Cool Jazz."

I can listen to New Orleans Jazz, ocassionaly, but it's definitely not my thing . . .

N'awlins got the best funerals. Dey dance your dead ass away with some hep jazz tunes.

I want a funeral like that. Hold a BBQ. Play some good music. The cremated ashes get shot out of a cannon with some fireworks, like Hunter S. Thompson!

Ha, I'm never gonna die.

I lived in The Big Easy for a time while I worked offshore.
Even off across Lake Pontchartrain in Slidel there were some jumping joints.
One in particular, was a coat and collar place, very nice, good music.
Not a place to try and hook up a date or something but an awesome place to take a lady, or just go for drinks and Jazz.

After reading the the sublist of jazz types, most of which are not really jazz, I think what Dougmeister means... is there anyone that can do more than two chords to something other that a perpetual, predictable knocking sound such as a rod knock from an idling Buick. Perhaps sung by a person that isn't being jabbed with a sharp stick and perhaps producing lyrics where the words are something other than "yeah baby" and actually understandable. Maybe someone with a trained and developed voice with vibrato. There is of course bad jazz, but there is very complex jazz that requires years of study and practice to learn as many as maybe 15 or more chords in one song and complex rhythms rather than staying with one or two chords and endless repetition that most anyone can master in two weeks. Mary Had A Little Lamb is more complex than what most rockers do. If your ear is totally untrained jazz will be too complex for you and rock will be fine. Rock is usually timed right to bounce your ass up and down to. You've heard 3 rock songs, you've heard em all. All music is mathematical in nature. Rock is simply rudimentary. It's not the music it's the costumes and the body movements.

After reading the the sublist of jazz types, most of which are not really jazz, I think what Dougmeister means... is there anyone that can do more than two chords to something other that a perpetual, predictable knocking sound such as a rod knock from an idling Buick. Perhaps sung by a person that isn't being jabbed with a sharp stick and perhaps producing lyrics where the words are something other than "yeah baby" and actually understandable. Maybe someone with a trained and developed voice with vibrato. There is of course bad jazz, but there is very complex jazz that requires years of study and practice to learn as many as maybe 15 or more chords in one song and complex rhythms rather than staying with one or two chords and endless repetition that most anyone can master in two weeks. Mary Had A Little Lamb is more complex than what most rockers do. If your ear is totally untrained jazz will be too complex for you and rock will be fine. Rock is usually timed right to bounce your ass up and down to. You've heard 3 rock songs, you've heard em all. All music is mathematical in nature. Rock is simply rudimentary. It's not the music it's the costumes and the body movements.

Kind of a broad statement there. Rock n' Roll has co-opted virtually everything, including jazz. Like jazz, there are many varieties, requiring different skills. Simple music is just the lowest common denominator, in any style, and the easiest to grasp. More complex music, in any style, requires patience on the part of the listener. It is an acquired taste. Also, all genres apply their own "costumes" to the proceedings. It is just human nature.

After reading the the sublist of jazz types, most of which are not really jazz, I think what Dougmeister means... is there anyone that can do more than two chords to something other that a perpetual, predictable knocking sound such as a rod knock from an idling Buick. Perhaps sung by a person that isn't being jabbed with a sharp stick and perhaps producing lyrics where the words are something other than "yeah baby" and actually understandable. Maybe someone with a trained and developed voice with vibrato. There is of course bad jazz, but there is very complex jazz that requires years of study and practice to learn as many as maybe 15 or more chords in one song and complex rhythms rather than staying with one or two chords and endless repetition that most anyone can master in two weeks. Mary Had A Little Lamb is more complex than what most rockers do. If your ear is totally untrained jazz will be too complex for you and rock will be fine. Rock is usually timed right to bounce your ass up and down to. You've heard 3 rock songs, you've heard em all. All music is mathematical in nature. Rock is simply rudimentary. It's not the music it's the costumes and the body movements.

I started out playing everything from Count Baise to Dave Brubeck. (Piano, Bass and Saxophone) Once I hit keyboards I was playing fusion starting with Chic Corea. Once you learn progressions, it all becomes just as easy. It is all a matter of taste. When eating, on a daily basis, not everyone wants truffles and veal. Sometimes you just want a burger.

Well stated Bastard and I agree...
Say, what ever happened to the guy that started this thread?
Did he figure out that he wasn't the top o the Jazz pile here on BM or somethin?

BB I listened to the Moth material... not hearing ANY of those influences in what they play.

Don said:
": . . . is there anyone that can do more than two chords to something other that a perpetual, predictable knocking sound such as a rod knock from an idling Buick."

". . . Perhaps sung by a person that isn't being jabbed with a sharp stick and perhaps producing lyrics where the words are something other than "yeah baby" and actually understandable."

"Maybe someone with a trained and developed voice . . ."

" . . . complex rhythms rather than staying with one or two chords and endless repetition that most anyone can master in two weeks."

"Mary Had A Little Lamb is more complex than what most rockers do."

"If your ear is totally untrained jazz will be too complex for you . . . You've heard 3 rock songs, you've heard em all."
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"Rock is simply rudimentary."
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I'm glad someone else said that, rather than me!

But - I whole-heartedly agree. (sigh - that will probably make me some enimies here.) Now the next thing to happen is that someone attacks jazz, or me & my music, and I take another few days off from Bandmix . . . sigh . . . life goes on . . .

And/but - anyway - I still like a lot of rock songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e431Ipp ... re=related

Mary Had a Little Lamb, it's fleece was black as coal.