Jazz for aficionados

We may, but Jazz doesn’t like boxes.

Frogman you are very right about Jazz.... There is no best...Only our favorite for a specific musical jazz "idiom"...The more i learned about jazz the more my preference have evolved too...

It is also true about classical interpretations, here too our "best" is less an expression of "the" best there is than a reflection about ourself...

But when all that is said, in a written musical idiom like classical language , some creators emerge out of the crowd...

For me my favorite is Bach( the best 😁😊) and in a less evident way for the rest of the people, i favor Scriabin i put on par with all others geniuses i loved too ....

I was very moved when i learned that one of the greatest and purest interpreter of classical Indian music on the sarod, Ali Akbar Khan, own a Bach portrait and admire him dearly...

There is no best, save Bach, even Chopin thought so and he borrow a lot from Bach in his music.... 😁😊

I apologize for my Bach cult bordering on completely subjective preference, but i am not alone by far....

In jazz i have to many favorite now to enumerate them...

For example i like Bill Evans very dearly but what About the great Oscar Peterson and many others ?

I think i am able to love all jazz musicians for what they are: pure musician in a quest for their own freedom....

Jazz is not inferior to classical neither to Indian music neither to any musical style....

Jazz is spiritual freedom too....

It liberate me from my prejudices and ignorance about music....

Music cannot be superior to his musicians... This is a jazz lesson....

In a way Bach is not superior to Bill Evans...Why?

Because Evans will teach something to Bach himself....

Bach learned from all great composers of his time, he admired Vivaldi and Corelli or Buxtehude and copy them by hand with devotion....

He was humble, even if he know his own trade to the minute, like great mathematicians and craftsman are because they worked all day without rest...Like are jazzman like Sun Ra who played 7 /7 almost 24/24 all his life...I admire him too... But his albums collections is too vast to be listened to for me right now (100 albums officially).... 😁😊

Thanks for your thoughts on the Perahia/Schubert.  
 

Schiff’s performance is truly remarkable.  I posted the Perahia recording because I own it and know the sonatas fairly well and  because I have always loved Perahia’s playing.  You wrote that you admire Schiff’s style.  I do also and would be tempted to characterize  what I hear as, not lacking, but devoid of “STYLE”.  Not sure I can put what I mean into words.  Incredibly dignified playing in every positive sense of the word.  As much as I hate to say it, makes Perahia sound “young”:’ too much made of crescendos and makes obvious his phasing twists and turns.  Schifff’s peaks after the crescendos don’t sound LOUD; as do Perahia’s.even though there is as much actual volume.  Lovely playing.

phasing=phrasing

I was amazed that anyone could keep the peaks sounding the same all the way.

My first afterword was I hoped Schubert had heard him , and I meant that

I go(or Did}to every D960 that comes to town, most have sheets .

Perahia is great to the Bach - French suites.and much more, I’ll never get rid of any thing of his .

P.S. was yours before or after his illness. " He has to play a bit difference .  Happy 7K, I only have a little bit.......