Jazz for aficionados

After writing all that, I must say I don't agree with the whole Masculine/ Feminine sound idea. So, a Johnny Hodges ballad is Feminine? Hell no! Beautiful yes!

https://youtu.be/_ww-XDuaxcw?si=U7wgDEPIuQbI0Lk2

https://youtu.be/CYg_3pQN-LU?si=ae_7wf47y-lnPdBw

Thanks for your response(s), @audio-b-dog.

re Rattle:

Q: How can one tell that the floor of the stage is level?

A: The viola players are drooling out of both sides of their mouths.

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frogman, so funny that you're hip to the violist jokes. At the L.A. Phil we had a lead violist named Carrie Dennis. She must have been one of the best violists in the world. In her twenties she was chosen as the L.A. Phil's lead violist but she went to Berlin instead. Then she came back to the L.A.a Phil. She used to sway her body like crazy to pretty much any composer. I used to like to watch her. She brought the concerts to life. She performed Bartok's Viola Concerto in bare feet. Then one day she did not come to work. She disappeared, and as far as I know, nobody knows where she is.

acman3, it has taken me years of working on a book to try to get across my ideas on the Feminine Creative Spirit. I don't know how much you know about physics, but there is a concept called entropy. Basically, it says that forms will eventually dissolve and become white noise. The universe will become white noise (particles scattered without form). Yet the universe has been around 14 billion years and it just keeps getting more complicated and more orderly. Something is missing in our male view of the universe. And it is male, just think of all the famous physicists you can think of. Physics' concepts have been designed by males. There is something we're not seeing. Richard Parnass writes about this in his book "The Passion of the Western Mind." He says our science is based on left-brain, logical thinking and we need to engage our right brains more. Einstein might be an exception because when he was a child he dreamed about traveling on a light beam.

But let me give you a quick perception about jazz that is indisputable. Female vocalists are not different than male vocalists simply because their voices are higher. Women convey a song differently than men because feminine expression is different than masculine expression. I don't know why this shouldn't prove true across the board. I don't think there have been enough female musicians (other than singers) for us to see that difference. Any females on this thread? That's another issue. 

I'm in with your brother and I think females will stand on their own excellence but it will take males some time to understand it. Actually, I think it will take the Feminine Creative Spirit to save our asses, because male-think is about to descend us into social entropy.