Do you lean towards blues or jazz?

[harpinon]

Took the daughter to a Broadway type musical this week. I noticed the songs did not have any structure. No repetition. No uniformity. No deep emotions.

I think of jazz music that way. I try to like it, and I should, (being ADD) but I just can't seem to "get into" jazz or broadway type music.

I feel like blues music, though sometimes TOO repetitive and simple, has more emotion ingrained and more resolve.

Which way do you lean and why?

[cbguy]

Apples and Oranges are both sweet in their own way. I like (and sometimes love) them both.

[docc48]

Yes I do..

[Flyin' Brian]

Blues gets to my heart. Jazz gets to both my heart and my brain.

There are many more genres that also attach themselves to me.

[Calaban]

Originally Posted by Flyin' Brian

Blues gets to my heart. Jazz gets to both my heart and my brain.

This is exactly how I feel.

There is a lot of good music that is sort of in between blues/rock and jazz. That kind of stuff might be a great place for you to start.

Or maybe you just don't like jazz. It happens.

[Brian D]

I dig a lot of jazz, but blues is in my soul.

[?&!]

I like my blues jazzy, and my jazz bluesy.

[madvek]

Originally Posted by ?&!

I like my blues jazzy, and my jazz bluesy.

[GCDEF]

I can't relate to free form jazz at all. I used to like blues but I'm at the point where I've heard it all 1,000 times and pretty bored with it.

I don't generally think of Broadway tunes as being jazz.

[hudpucker]

Yes.

[stevel]

Originally Posted by Flyin' Brian

Blues gets to my heart. Jazz gets to both my heart and my brain.

I think it depends on the type of Jazz though - some Jazz is very cerebral. But a lot of it is as emotional. And of course a LOT of jazz is blues-tinged. Jump Blues gets to my feet, not my heart or my brain. Son House or Skip James gets to my Soul.

Steve

[arthur rotfeld]

Originally Posted by harpinon

Took the daughter to a Broadway type musical this week. I noticed the songs did not have any structure. No repetition. No uniformity. No deep emotions.

I think of jazz music that way. I try to like it, and I should, (being ADD) but I just can't seem to "get into" jazz or broadway type music.

I feel like blues music, though sometimes TOO repetitive and simple, has more emotion ingrained and more resolve.

Which way do you lean and why?

Jazz usually has a structure. Often simple structures. Many players spend their lives playing tunes that fit on one page of paper (12, 16, and 32-bar pieces). Pieces that have no structure are the exception rather than the rule. I suspect that even when no structure is heard there still is one present, at least apart from really open free jazz.

Regarding the lack of repetition in the music you heard, it would mean you were listening to through-composed music, as opposed to strophic. I have a hard time believing there were no strophic songs in a show, even just to contrast the through-composed ones, but possible, sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through-composed

[andrekp]

I think you are defining "jazz" waaaay to narrowly. There are a lot of kinds of jazz, many with structures as defined as any blues. Some of what we now think of as jazz, is essentially just a variant of blues.

This is not to say that much of what we tend to think of as "jazz" now isn't fairly freeform, but just to say that to suggest it defines the form is akin to saying that all classical music has piano in it.

[Snottyboy]

Another "yes" here. Sometimes provides direction, sometimes presents dilemma.

[tapeworm]

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