lucyinthesky said – Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:34:26 -0000 ( Link )
Even though this might sound strange coming from a jazz lover and the creator of this Jazz community – but I think jazz is a dying art form. I think the spirit of jazz has entered new ways to express itself – like rap, spoken poetry and film. We have these new technologies and mediums which allow creativity to flow in ways we have never known before.
In one of my lessons, “Is Jazz Dead”, there is a quote:
“The jazz body is dead but the spirit of jazz is alive…the body is dead because inherently the material of jazz does not allow for further growth…Since the jazz body cannot grow, it can only repeat itself. In so doing, it is stagnant. in so doing, it is dead.”
Once you do something enough times, it’s not new anymore. You have to find something else fresh and exciting. And that improvisation and “newness” is what jazz is all about. What we love about the jazz of the past was the fact that it was so new and different, and that it shaped our history and our cultural preferences. Now that these changes have already occurred as a result of jazz, where can we turn to next?
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lucyinthesky said – Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:55:01 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
True. So if ‘rock’ and ‘jazz’ are dead…what is ‘alive’ now? Haha.