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RE: Trying to get back into jazz

"A friend of mine says jazz has too many notes. I think you either love it or hate it. My wife tolerates it. The 4 best seller jazz albums of all times: Miles Davis Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck Time Out, John Coltrane Giant Steps and The Jazztet Meet the Jazztet (still unexplainably, kinda out of print...thanks Verve)."

I love jazz, I grew up listening to it, it's just that I've simply O.D.-ed on it after many years of listening. Many people here find that to be a sacrilege (I can't understand why would it be so bad to reach a level of saturation?)

Play me anything by Thelonius Monk or Dave Liebman, and I'll instantly melt. But I've tried listening to many of the newer jazz 'lions', and frankly they left me cold. There just doesn't seem to be any emotion in their music, it feels to me as if they're playing a well studied, brilliantly executed game of chess. A well oiled jazz machinery that doesn't go anywhere.

So here I'm asking for some guidance. Many people on this forum seem upset about the fact that someone is asking for a bit of a nudge, but those people probably have a lot of problems at home or at work, so I understand their anguish.


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