What is the difference between contemporary music and free jazz ?

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Topic Posted on 01/27/2008 at 14:42:17

So what ?

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MrKermit

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21 Posted on 02/05/2008 at 03:46:11

Yeah, I love Monk

Quote: Hard to explain, except tht he brought new possibilities in harmony, like Ravel or Bartok.

When I listen to him, I feel like he didn't have any choice but to play exactly that music. No calculation, nothing artificial, only him playing what he knows he has to play. May sound silly but that's what I most like about his music, there's a real person behind it...And that's a thing I don't feel about bebop for example

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22 Posted on 03/03/2008 at 13:49:49

There is a word that can make the link between the french version of AF and this thread :

cliché

That's just what I can see here...

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23 Posted on 03/04/2008 at 00:41:39

If it's a post from kloug, it's a call for cliché

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24 Posted on 12/30/2008 at 09:39:49

If I take Reich's link a few posts before, I can hear typical Reich : contemporan architecture with very classical harmony, right ?

Reich is easy listening to me, like Django is in what we strangely call "jazz" (obvious because of improvisation in it, but far from the other main styles).
Because 90% gipsy guitar is common harmonies and cadences (word in english ?), it could be sold next to pop music in our fnacs. See Sanseverino...

Contemporan music may be very close to classical composition to me, even though there's no melodic instrument in the piece of music. But jazz consantly try to break the rules, no ? (contemporan guys do the same, dammit)
But rules (and limits) are something we have if we close our mind to other uncommon rules. Like Kermit, I have trouble with some kinds of music, but that's not especially jazz, I'd rather say music that never follow a common rule we can find in mainstream music.
When I have trouble with that kind of music (Miles Davis is an example), I try to listen it as an experience, not like a commonly built piece of music. If I try, I won't get the point and appreciate the shit.
It's the same with contemporan, if I don't understand it, I try to listen it as if it wasn't music, but a listenable phenomen... Sorry I'm OT ! :oops: