In Reply to: RE: "All the giants are dead now anyways." posted by Ivan303 on April 29, 2015 at 18:00:45:
classical is mostly about *covering* tunes by dead composers.
I would bet that there are better interpretors than the composers themselves playing their own tunes. Instruments today are better, too.
It seems to me that today's *jazz* are all imitations. They don't sound fresh like Bird, Miles, Mingus, Evans, Tatum etc..
When they died they took their art with them. Their phrasing, timing, pacing etc.. were so intuitive and spontaneous creation that only they can play like that again.
Unlike classical music, it's just not about their composition. It's about their creative interpretation that made them so special.
Jazz music, on a whole, some fabulous things happen at a spare the moment. Totally unrehearsed.
Try to tell that to Celibedache. :P
In addition, today's major record label will never allow a kind of creative freedom, nurturing and support to the artists. ( like the original Lion/Wolff Blue Note )
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Follow Ups
- no. not the same.... - kuma 21:12:42 04/29/15 (3)
- RE: "They don't sound fresh" - Ivan303 07:07:33 04/30/15 (1)
- oh yeah. cuz, they were the makers. (nt) - kuma 10:03:51 04/30/15 (0)
- "today's major record label"... - David Smith 21:25:07 04/29/15 (0)