Your dislike of jazz has always puzzled me. "Distorting the melody" is not far off from "variations," a feature upon which large parts of the classical repertoire are based. There are two primary differences: the first is the vocabulary, and the second is that the jazz musician is expected to invent the variations on the fly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, it's lousy. When it does, it's glorious; for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJhHn-TuDY&pp=ygUOb3NjYXIgcGV0ZXJzb24%3D - some of the finest piano playing, in any genre, I have ever heard.
Most of the time it's ... okay.
There's lousy classical music, too; it's just that most of it has been filtered out over the centuries. I imagine there's still some being written though.
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Date: 2024-11-10 11:59 pm (UTC)Most of the time it's ... okay.
There's lousy classical music, too; it's just that most of it has been filtered out over the centuries. I imagine there's still some being written though.