[Dixielandjazz] Feeling & Notes & Soul

[Bill Gunter]

Listmates:

I don't have a problem with "a lot of notes" providing they're good ones. 
Just playing scales and arpeggios is good practice but not necessarily good 
inprovisation.

Trouble with too many notes, especially in more modern forms of jazz, is 
that they often sound like notes simply being played arbitrarily without 
regard to chord progression or melody line. Such players like to say they're 
"stretching the envelope" but I usually have a hard time accepting that.

It's like modern art, where sometimes the artist creates something a three 
year old finger painter could do and calls it profound.

I really don't care much for "cerebral" art, preferring "visceral" art.

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "I don't understand much of contemporary jazz" Gunter