In Reply to: And then there is good jazz, e.g., Solveig Slettahjell, Susanne Abbuehl, posted by Jay Buridan on July 30, 2012 at 08:48:50:
Jay Buridan said...
" but most of the interesting music is coming from Europe. Americans are too stupid to appreciate good music"
Sure some good music is coming from Europe but a lot is not real jazz,
especially the like of Solveig Slettahjell, Susanne Abbuehl.
Even if you like them, these 2 ladies have a very small following even in Europe, they are pleasant but insignificant and certainly not bringing jazz forward.
How can we even compare them to the like of Sheila Jordan, Nancy king,
Karrin Allyson or Jay Clayton and many others. One must just surf "CD Baby" listen and discover some great talents.
I have over 200 different jazz singers in my collection, maybe 20% are from Europe.
Maybe I am a purist be we where talking about jazz, did we not.???
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Follow Ups
- ""??????? - jazz1 11:50:56 07/30/12 (13)
- not real jazz? - plantsman 08:06:33 08/02/12 (2)
- RE: not real jazz? - jazz1 11:55:25 08/02/12 (1)
- Thanks for the clarification - plantsman 12:55:09 08/02/12 (0)
- To each his own, but contemporary American Jazz bores me with few exceptions - Jay Buridan 16:25:37 07/30/12 (9)
- RE: To each his own, but contemporary American Jazz bores me with few exceptions - David Smith 07:09:22 07/31/12 (6)
- Yes, hundreds and hundreds out of 313 million people - Jay Buridan 08:44:12 07/31/12 (5)
- That's ridiculous. - David Smith 15:05:40 07/31/12 (2)
- I was in agreement with you as to hundreds and hundreds - Jay Buridan 16:44:34 07/31/12 (1)
- That's exactly my point - David Smith 20:47:59 07/31/12 (0)
- The same as it has always been... - rditmars 09:32:55 07/31/12 (1)
- Thanks, will do... - Jay Buridan 16:39:57 07/31/12 (0)
- RE: To each his own, but contemporary American Jazz bores me with few exceptions - jazz1 23:24:33 07/30/12 (1)
- Wayne Shorter is one of the greats in my book - Jay Buridan 08:48:18 07/31/12 (0)