This is going to be different.
If you are a traditionalist, if you are a Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture purist, you will want to navigate away from this page. Perhaps, you should go here.
Tonight, for the first time ever, the Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture broadens the horizon while getting genre-specific.
This week’s match up is…
Bluegrass or Jazz?
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J wrote,
Bluegrass AND Jazz! Woohoo!
Flecktones!
Too many old Jazzers and Bluegrassians are stuck in their respective ruts; they play the same old stuff with the same old changes and the same old solos every time. Here’s to the folks on either side who are brave enough to begin the dance each time with fresh shoes, fresh moves, and no worries as to where the piece will go once the dance begins.
Salute!
Link | June 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Pat Darnell and Flood Gauge Fusion wrote,
Oh jeeeez, Pribes, do I have to make that decision today?
Genrefication. Salvation. hmmmmm Cannonball Adderly,
Bluegrass belongs to those eastern yankee Georgian Rebels on the Atlantic coast…. but “I ain’t the kind to hold a personal grudge.”
Both gems of music, jazz and bluegrass, rely on the Holy Spirit to guide the orchestrations, and a leading voice or sax, and 32 part harmonies, polygamists, ex-cons, preachers, biscuits and gravy, word jazz, banjos (yuk), Finger Plicking Goodness, dulcimers, throaty emissions, copper taste in the mouth, families versus rogues.
Randomfications, mix-nation, flatulation, put your hands together…. AAaaargggghhh Bljazzegrianass!!
Flood Gauge Fusion…. difficulty factoring, wind, and drift, *wet finger in the air*… Simon and Garfunkel.
That’s my final answer…
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Link | June 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Sans Direction wrote,
Again, bluegrass and jazz.
Bluegrass, I’ve recently heard, is heavy metal unplugged. Lyrically, that makes sense, because the lyrics are about sex (”Rollin’ in my Sweet Baby’s Arms”) and gruesome death (”Knoxville Girl”), but instrumentally, as in the instrumental songs, there’s always improv. I’ve heard of a ‘grasser bassist going to Preservation Hall and their bassist being out, so he sat in. They were unsure at first, but he swung it hard and won them over.
There’s great jazzy grass without going as far as the Flecktones. I like ‘em, they’re great, but if the only BG instrument is the banjo, you have to start thinking that it isn’t bluegrass. But David Grisman and Tony Rice, to name two, are grassers who got that swing.
And, of course, Chris Thile, who can play anything on the mandolin.
To repeat, And.
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Link | June 7th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Pribek wrote,
I guess I can accept “and” as an answer. It seems that you guys are exceptions to the rule based on my past experience. What, I mean by that is, I’ve known many jazz fans who had no room for bluegrass and vice versa. I can’t accuse any of you of being a purist.
As I ponder, Grisman, Rice, Bela are all guys I think of as bluegrass players that can also play great jazz. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any jazz players that I’ve heard play great bluegrass. Not saying it hasn’t been done or can’t be done, I just don’t recall hearing it being done.
I would love to hear Wynton Marsalis play on “Blackberry Blossom”. Would that still be bluegrass though? Now, I’ve heard Grisman play Coltrane and it is jazz. It’s just played on a mandolin but, it’s jazz.
Link | June 8th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Pribek wrote,
http://www.twainquotes.com/Music.html
Link | June 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Pribek wrote,
Even if you have some brilliant jazz ideas, it’s going to be difficult to get them across unless you have (a) a distinctive sound or (b) a loud sound. These are musts.
~ Sonny Rollins
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.
~ John Coltrane
At heart I’ve always been a jazz man.
~ James Brown
Boxing is like jazz, the better it is, the less people appreciate it.
~ George Foreman
Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
~ Thelonius Monk
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzquotes.php
Link | June 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Kenski wrote,
Jazz would win every time when you’re inundated by city lights. As soon as you can see the stars, watch out for the bluegrassers, ‘cos they’re waiting for you in the darkness.
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Link | June 9th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Sans Direction wrote,
Kenski,
It’s more the newgrassers, and especially if messed with their kin.
http://www.bluegrassnet.com/tgbs/C/Colly_Davis.html
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Link | June 9th, 2008 at 6:35 am
From the Audience wrote,
Some people are pre-destined to be wrong….
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Link | June 9th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Pribek wrote,
I must admit that I like the idea of violent bluegrass.
Link | June 9th, 2008 at 10:20 pm