I don’t like jazz, those guys play like they’re just making it up as they go.
“I don’t like jazz, those guys play like they’re just making it up as they go.”
Because they are. There’s no structure.
I call it the musical answer to Tourette Syndrome.
The organist and pianist at a former church was really good. He would do his own arrangements of familiar hymns that were great. One time I asked him how long it took him to write the arrangements.
He said years previously he would spend hours and hours over the course of a week or more working on an arrangement. But then he learned the basic concepts of jazz and he said he now could do it in an afternoon.
I went to a concert with Phil Keaggy and he had a bunch of musicians with him that he had just sort of thrown together for some shows on the west coast. Someone from the audience requested a song.
“Well - just me (he plays guitar) and the drummer know that one of mine. But the others can chime in when they get a feel for it.”
It was unbelievable how the others (4 or 5 others?) figured it out. I have no idea if it sounded like the original song, but it sounded great.
I recall one gal started playing one instrument (a violin?) and after a short time set it down and picked up a flute to play instead. I guess she figured the flute was more compatible to the song.