[ The Great Sonny Rollins on Why Jazz Is “King of All Musics” ]
WRONG.. Classical and Classical Crossover is KIng and Queen...
Jazz is just a nuance of Blues and the base of PoP..
RAP is not even music.. it is posturing by people with no musical talent..
FAKE music or PoP Propaganda.. or even Junk Agitprop..
Classical is the King of Music.. the more you hate Classical the more APE-like you are..
Eventially degrading to RAP and acting like an APE..
thinking like an Ape, some even walking like APES..
The emotions, tone, demeanor, and harmony of Classical is wide and deep.. and Classical Cross-over is like a “Sigh”.. or glance of the eyes.. Classical and Classical-Crossover is like two genres dancing sometimes romantic sometimes brisk and lively..
Jazz is a Princess and Blues a Prince both learning to be potty trained.. a good wipe and their good as new..
PoP vomits quite often and RAP pisses on the TV..
**NOTE: My next class will be on the difference between, Politics and Tribal musical chairs.. (seating is limited)..
I don’t know what it is but I cannot get into Jazz. All it sounds like to me is all the musicians play solos and don’t listen to each other.
Plus, and this is a major reason, is the numerous 7th and 11th chords not to mention the suspended ones. It sounds to me like a piano where you play the adjacent white and black keys at the same time, is sounds terrible.
Different strokes and all that...
Duke Ellington put it best.
“There’s only two kinds of music. Good music and bad music, so if it sounds good, it is good.”
“You’ve referred to jazz as the “king of all musics.” ....Well I think that, especially in our world, we have so many kinds of music now. There’s your so-called popular music and all these offshoots and world musics. But jazz is somehow the tops. And I don’t mean this in a way to sound like I’m putting other music down. I’m not. Everybody loves jazz music. I find guys who play all styles of music and when they talk about jazz music, they speak in a very reverential way. They know how difficult it is to play.”
Stick to your sax, dude: ‘thinking’ isn’t your life’s calling.
Sonny Rollins is the nicest person I have ever met.
I’ve been playing some Joe Zawinul - Weather Report, Pharoah’s Revenge, etc.
Forty-some years later, still very progressive stuff.