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

[Ron L'Herault]

Don’t know if it is for the same reason but I’m with you.   Modern music/jazz leaves me cold.  I can’t connect with it.

 

Ron L

 

From: Dan Spink [mailto:danspink at dceo.rutgers.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:22 AM
To: Ron
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] A Simple Way To Define Our Kind Of Music

 

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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