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In its time jazz was full of harmonic and rhythmic innovations. People played chords and melodies "wrong" and it felt dangerous and exciting. Jazz was always ab
by viburnum 8y ago
In its time jazz was full of harmonic and rhythmic innovations. People played chords and melodies "wrong" and it felt dangerous and exciting. Jazz was always about pushing boundaries, but once you got to free jazz in the 1960s there was nowhere left to go, and the only thing left was to turn it into classical music.
All that energy is has been in hip hop for decades now. Oh yeah, and people want to dance too.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoJazz’s fate mirrors blues in that it’s reached its mature state and now symbiotic relationships with other genres are where innovation happens. David Bowie’s Blackstar, Dillinger Escape Plan’s Jazz-infused math rock hardcore, and Norwegian Shining’s Avant-garde Blackjazz sui generis would be prime examples of this kind of achievement.