unfairly most people i know think Robert Johnson when it comes to blues and elevator music when it comes to Jazz...it makes me sad...good match though lots of amazing amazing music in both genres
Agreed: Nawlins jazz is a beautiful thing all on its own. Music that makes you want to dance and smile uncontrollably = good. But it's only one subset of a fairly darn diverse genre.
I like music with rhythm. I like swing-era jazz and some more modern stuff, but as uncool as this makes me with the Real Jazz Kids, I cannot listen to Miles Davis-type jazz for more than about 2 minutes without my eyeballs starting to twitch. I totally appreciate what he did for music. But the complete randomness of that kind of jazz feels like an invasion of noise.
I am more familiar with Blues artists especially the very early ones than I am with Jazz artists.
When I think blues my mind goes to people like Lead Belly who served time on a chain gang and in prison for attempted murder. Otherwise it is of dive bars in Chicago, tough dangerous dark places.
When I think of early Jazz it is hot women (Femme Fatale and smoky jazz), the roaring 20's, booze, cocaine, and the mob. People who hired the killing but did not do it themselves or were into more upscale crime and vices.
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But it's only one subset of a fairly darn diverse genre.
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When I think blues my mind goes to people like Lead Belly who served time on a chain gang and in prison for attempted murder. Otherwise it is of dive bars in Chicago, tough dangerous dark places.
When I think of early Jazz it is hot women (Femme Fatale and smoky jazz), the roaring 20's, booze, cocaine, and the mob. People who hired the killing but did not do it themselves or were into more upscale crime and vices.
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If it's the former, jazz, then, please.
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