tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post4493132203867581941..comments2024-03-28T18:11:29.865-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Of bass playersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-35004135354049138922016-01-24T14:51:20.041-05:002016-01-24T14:51:20.041-05:00For jazz pianists, bsss players are the guardians...For jazz pianists, bsss players are the guardians of tme and harmony--long may they play.(A gig with a bad bass player is painful, with a good one it's sublime.reilly atkinsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-57402461260125113212016-01-23T20:44:20.552-05:002016-01-23T20:44:20.552-05:00Jaco " a sense of modesty"?Jaco " a sense of modesty"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-64756370830807387172016-01-23T11:55:21.502-05:002016-01-23T11:55:21.502-05:00Jazz is considered to be a type of folk music. And...Jazz is considered to be a type of folk music. And until the arrival of Charlie Parker jazz was essentially dance music, consider the swing era. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824840608930313691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-87236295453603076772016-01-21T11:13:16.938-05:002016-01-21T11:13:16.938-05:00a traditional folk song to the works of Thelonious...<i>a traditional folk song to the works of Thelonious Monk. This does not mean that the folk song was bad, only that the later work was far more venturesome at the least, and more creative at best. </i><br /><br />C'mon, Sam. The trad ("folk") music canon was developed for dancing, not self-expression, by self-taught musicians using home-made instruments. Or no instruments, in the case of puirt à beul. <br /><br />It's pretty darned hard to get chords out of a one-string gusle, a six-hole end-blown flute, a one-sided hand-held drum, or a pair of rib bones. Monk, for all his genius, could have ventured and created til his brain bled and he still couldn't have got more out of the instruments than they could give.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com