[Dixielandjazz] A Simple Way To Define Our Kind Of Music

[Dan Spink]

I have never authored an original email to this list. I hope your readers
find this interesting. All of the years I've played piano in different
bands I've noticed that the music I truly love can be easily categorized
harmonically and rhythmically--but I've never seen anyone comment on this
idea. Maybe the list mates have some opinions:

The music I love I call "emotional" music which I contrast with
"intellectual" music. The first is harmonically centered on triads and
sevenths with a clearly "felt" two-beat or four beat. This includes
Dixieland, folk, church hymns, Rock, and even Classical. The opposite I see
as dissonance focus and a steady but not easily felt four beat. I was
playing in the Fifties when I sensed the split in "Jazz". I do not wish to
offend anyone, but I do not like Bebop or what could be called "Modern
Jazz" with so many complex, dissonant chords I can't tell them apart
sometimes.

My bias may not be appreciated but I respect musical skill in any genre.

Any comments from anyone?

Dan Spink


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