Re: Where's the soul?!?

I don't think expressing one's opinions is useless. Your posts
about the superiority of Gibson guitars over boutique made archtops are
an equally subjective argument, but that doesn't make the discussions
useless.

I agree that Jack's interpretation of "soul" wasn't entirely
clear, so the discussion may have veered away from his original
intentions. I interpret soulful as having a foundation in the blues.
I don't hear this in some modern players (e.g. Monder and
Rosenwinkel), and as a result, I don't connect with them so much.
But their music certainly doesn't lack passion, emotional investment,
etc...


Five Sharp wrote:
> Pretty useless discussion again. It depends how you define "soul". Already I
> have seen players here described as "soulful" that I'd personally rank as
> pretty "soulless." Again all absolute values needed to define the object
> under discussion are missing.
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> This group is an endless parade of opinions. Often we seem to be discussing
> the undiscussable.
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> "Jack Zucker" <jaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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> >I hope this doesn't digress into hair-pulling and name calling but I've
> > been wondering what happened to the "soul" of jazz music?
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> > When I listen to Pops, Basie, Bird, early Trane, Miles with Herbie,
> > Tony, Ron & Jack, etc., there is a soul to the music that is intense.
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> > I've always said that one reason I love jazz is that it appeals to the
> > intellectual and the soulful side of me. The problem is that most jazz
> > I've heard recently seems to be void of any kind of soul.
> >
> > This is obviously just an opinion but It seems that in the process of
> > attempting to take jazz to the next level musically, some of us (and I
> > include myself) have checked our soul at the door.
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> > Thoughts? (Let's please try to be civil here...)
> >

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