tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post8767080682368772497..comments2024-02-20T21:17:35.156-08:00Comments on Robert Philen's Blog: Jazz is not America's Classical MusicRobert Philenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09457837427267431889noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post-84068208853526729882011-04-08T14:44:10.980-07:002011-04-08T14:44:10.980-07:00in fact like the Cheap Viagra, this is something a...in fact like the <a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/" rel="nofollow">Cheap Viagra</a>, this is something almost in it totality a Afroamerican inheritance, if you put attention to this music you can find all this kind of cultural pieces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post-24930003810465072202011-02-01T09:14:41.386-08:002011-02-01T09:14:41.386-08:00of course, the jazz music is not American, but wel...of course, the jazz music is not American, but well in America this rhythm found it mayor support, <a href="http://www.iservepharmacy.com" rel="nofollow">generic viagra</a> is one of the most expressive Jazz band in the history of the music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post-63075077632019325172010-11-21T21:54:53.847-08:002010-11-21T21:54:53.847-08:00I think this article comes more from ego of nation...I think this article comes more from ego of nationalism. Jazz can be called america's or african version of classical music because jazz is from classical music. I am not saying classical music and jazz are the same thing. Classical music is too broad term for various genres of music from long period times also. different genres in classical musics have all different characters as jazz has different charaters from romantic genre.popopohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026589549594310949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post-40022784361697231502007-06-29T16:21:00.000-07:002007-06-29T16:21:00.000-07:00Good question. Clearly, given what I wrote in the ...Good question. <BR/><BR/>Clearly, given what I wrote in the post, I do think that jazz and classical music do generally have distinct features as genres and that it's worthwhile to make and be aware of that distinction. To me, two important distinctions are that jazz in general emphasizes improvisatory performance in a way that classical music usually does not (with the sorts of exceptions I discussed in the post), and jazz has emphasized syncopation and play with rhythm to a much greater extent than classical. <BR/><BR/>These are differences in the performance of jazz and classical music. (To be sure, there's also a lot of music that doesn't fit neatly into one category or the other, and I don't think it's useful to pigeon-hole such cases.)<BR/><BR/>Your question, though, is, I think, more about the source of inspiration. I think that on the one hand we don't fully understand where inspiration or creativity come from, but on the other it seems that inspiration can come from a wide variety of places that are not easily bounded, and that this is true in all fields of human creativity. <BR/><BR/>What makes classical music classical isn't so much where the source material comes from, but how it's applied and performed. I don't think Shostakovich looking to jazz for inspiration in his "jazz suites" (which do draw from jazz, but probably wouldn't be confused with jazz in their performance) is that different from Bartok looking to Hungarian folk music for inspiration. Likewise, what makes jazz jazz isn't where the improvisatory source material comes from so much as what's done with it in performance. A possibly apocryphal story has it that one night in the 1940s, Charlie Parker spotted Igor Stravinsky in the audience and proceeded to improvise on a theme from Stravinsky's Firebird suite. In terms of performance, his source of inspiration might have been atypical, but what he did wasn't different in kind from what the John Coltrane quartet did with their improvisations on "Alabama," or what any number of jazz musicians do when performing a jazz standard like "Round Midnight," or what the Josh Roseman Unit did with the melodic material from Nirvana's rock song "Smells like teen spirit."Robert Philenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09457837427267431889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049414276944858688.post-60579535089957551472007-06-29T10:48:00.000-07:002007-06-29T10:48:00.000-07:00Robert,I just read this post and also yourJohn Col...Robert,<BR/><BR/>I just read this post and also your<BR/>John Coltrane's "Alabama" post, and<BR/>I agree with what you say; but I<BR/>have a layered question: As jazz has obviously influenced composers<BR/>such as George Gershwin, and poets<BR/>such as Nathaniel Mackey and James<BR/>Tate, do you have insights as to<BR/>how and why?<BR/><BR/>Thank you,<BR/>Brian Salchertbrian (baj) salcherthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656noreply@blogger.com