The only Zappa album I have is Sheik Yerbouti, and I like the one song where he has taken a drum track from one live show, and married it to the rest of a song from a separate song & session - ha hah. In the liner notes, he says "all of the sensitive interplay between the bass and drums... never happened" ha ha! If you have different ideas about how music should go, if the end result is intriguing, well, nothing wrong with that.
I didn't know Zappa wrote charts for his band, but it makes sense. I think Uzeb, don't know if they read charts, but the end result, they sometimes play an extended melody line that sounds like a solo, but the whole band is playing the same melody, all hitting the same rhythm points dead on. It is NOT improvised, however the composition sounds like it might have stemmed from an improv session. They are using all kinds of crazy modes, not in a contrived way, and not just defaulting to the blues scale.
I went to York U for visual art, and when I did run into jazz program dudes, they were pretty snobby. I don't know if the students are reflective of the values of the music program faculty, I think Humber might be a more well-rounded music school. I am going to the jazz fest in Montreal this summer (!) and I am looking forward to it, I think that Montreal is more progressive than Toronto in terms of jazz development.
I think it's asinine to hold up a particular bunch of decades of music and say that they're the best decade of all.
Music reflects the culture of the people; going back and playing some crusty old standard the same way someone else has, is like when the medieval people copied illustrations from other books, they were somehow above trying to paint from actual real plants and people.
It's all context; what sounds too new-fangled for one person's ears, might be possibly be held up as the next generation's anthem. Kurt Cobain & Nirvana are a good case in point. They kind of went under my radar, but people 5-6 years younger consider it a pivotal point in their music. *old school jazzers take note!!*
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Date: 2005-06-10 10:26 pm (UTC)I didn't know Zappa wrote charts for his band, but it makes sense. I think Uzeb, don't know if they read charts, but the end result, they sometimes play an extended melody line that sounds like a solo, but the whole band is playing the same melody, all hitting the same rhythm points dead on. It is NOT improvised, however the composition sounds like it might have stemmed from an improv session. They are using all kinds of crazy modes, not in a contrived way, and not just defaulting to the blues scale.
I went to York U for visual art, and when I did run into jazz program dudes, they were pretty snobby. I don't know if the students are reflective of the values of the music program faculty, I think Humber might be a more well-rounded music school. I am going to the jazz fest in Montreal this summer (!) and I am looking forward to it, I think that Montreal is more progressive than Toronto in terms of jazz development.
I think it's asinine to hold up a particular bunch of decades of music and say that they're the best decade of all.
Music reflects the culture of the people; going back and playing some crusty old standard the same way someone else has, is like when the medieval people copied illustrations from other books, they were somehow above trying to paint from actual real plants and people.
It's all context; what sounds too new-fangled for one person's ears, might be possibly be held up as the next generation's anthem. Kurt Cobain & Nirvana are a good case in point. They kind of went under my radar, but people 5-6 years younger consider it a pivotal point in their music. *old school jazzers take note!!*