"If you want to see/hear a mind that produced both visual art and Music
google Don Van Vliet."
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google Don Van Vliet."
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Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art?
So, I’ll acknowledge up front, I’m an engineer. Civilian and Warfighter lives can be in the balance depending on whether our company products perform as required or not. As a result, I try very hard to drive the entropic world we live in towards black and white as much as possible. I need to put order to chaos. When i look at art, impressionistic art requires a lot of mental work to make sense of. I just don't see it or get it, appreciate it or like it. I also find, as hard as i may try to enjoy improvisational jazz, that i don't get it, appreciate it, or like it. Instead, I love Realism art and instrumental smooth jazz!!
Reading from Audiogon forum pages for a couple of years now, i feel like i should feel inferior because 1. I don’t appreciate the free flow of expression that is improvisational jazz and 2. I love that there is a tune and thread in smooth jazz. I love the guitar artistry of Chuck Loeb, Chris Standring, and Acoustic Alchemy; the trumpet expressions of Rick Braun, Cindy Bradley, and Chris Botti; and the bass works of Brian Bromberg.
I’m curious if there are many others out there that equate order (or lack there-of) in their music tastes to that of their taste in the visual arts?
Also, are there many other music lovers who would rather enjoy a good smooth jazz listening session than improvisational jazz? If so, who do you listen to?
Reading from Audiogon forum pages for a couple of years now, i feel like i should feel inferior because 1. I don’t appreciate the free flow of expression that is improvisational jazz and 2. I love that there is a tune and thread in smooth jazz. I love the guitar artistry of Chuck Loeb, Chris Standring, and Acoustic Alchemy; the trumpet expressions of Rick Braun, Cindy Bradley, and Chris Botti; and the bass works of Brian Bromberg.
I’m curious if there are many others out there that equate order (or lack there-of) in their music tastes to that of their taste in the visual arts?
Also, are there many other music lovers who would rather enjoy a good smooth jazz listening session than improvisational jazz? If so, who do you listen to?
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A person has only two things - a soul and a body And interestingly enough neither of those things is a thing. What you must remember above all is there are no such things as things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2YSkylR_ws |
I really try and give my all when I listen to all kinds of Music.I will be 70 and started with doowap and music on TV .My grandfather alway had the radio on he was into 20s music. My uncle doowap.My Stepfather Sinatra, Dean Martin,and Bway show music.In school the nuns liked Hootenanny. Then came the Beatles, Am rock.Then FM rock WNEW ,prog rock, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. CSNand Y.Jazz started when I worked in the old PO unloading trucks at nite.The guy at the front desk played JAZZ,mostly Free Form,Coltrane ,Miles Davis.From Prog Rock I started to listen to Classical everything I would listen to.That lead me to discovering Movie Sound tracks which mostly is Class -Jazz.Funny going to bars in the 70s lead to Disco,the Soul ,Rhythm n Blues.World music.Today,I like everything but Rapa Crapa,don't get me wrong but some of the language is just disgusting. I like the music,not the words.i like all kinds of jazz and have been to lots of clubs in Manhattan. I also like New Orleans Dixie land jazz.What I like about music from Louisiana is Down home Cajun and Texas Rock.Music is the Language of the world ,something that brings people of different religious back grounds and different colors together as one . |
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