Why do humans like jazz?

[EJ3]

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JSmith

It used to be that MAN included WOMEN.
But now they want to be their own thing, kind of like ALIENS in a UFO
It's just getting so damned confusing.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Soandso]

Jazz advanced race and international relations.

In 1929 the Victor recording "That's a Serious Thing" was the 1st mixed race jazz musicians' release. Later in 1929 the Okeh recording "Mahogany Hall Stomp" was the 2nd mixed race jazz musicians' release.

A seminal jazz band called "The Mound City Blues Blowers" originally played just a banjo, kazoo and comb; soon adding musicians on guitar, fiddle and drum. They were later joined by Coleman Hawkins.

The 1st trans-atlantic broadcast of a jazz radio program to England occurred in 1938. It originated from the Saint Regis Hotel in New York City.

The 4 sides of a 78-rpm improvised performance titled "A Good Man is Hard to Find" released on 12 inch records was the first jazz "LP" (LP = long playing). It was put out in 1940 by Commodore records.

In 1942 the 1st New York City Carnegie Concert Hall jazz sit-down performance was headlined by Fats Waller. By the by, on some early jazz recordings because Fats Waller was under contract with Victor when he played on some other records he's credited as simply "Maurice".

1942 was incidentally the year of the first jazz concerts Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast on television (a tv back then had about a 3 inch screen). However that soon stopped after only 4 programs due to a general kind of wartime edict.

The 1st Newport Jazz Festival held at the city's open air casino was attended by 6,000 people. That was in 1954 when Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie performed among about 18 other jazz musicians. (About his trademark accidentally bent upward trumpet bell Dizzy Gillespie once said: "For the first time I heard myself play!")

Bellow is the 1942 promotional flyer for the Carnegie Hall concert and a photo of Fats Waller playing at the event. Admission to that concert was as low as $0.75.

 

[Emlin]

Jazz advanced race and international relations.

In 1929 the Victor recording "That's a Serious Thing" was the 1st mixed race jazz musicians' release. Later in 1929 the Okeh recording "Mahogany Hall Stomp" was the 2nd mixed race jazz musicians' release.

A seminal jazz band called "The Mound City Blues Blowers" originally played just a banjo, kazoo and comb; soon adding musicians on guitar, fiddle and drum. They were later joined by Coleman Hawkins.

The 1st trans-atlantic broadcast of a jazz radio program to England occurred in 1938. It originated from the Saint Regis Hotel in New York City.

The 4 sides of a 78-rpm improvised performance titled "A Good Man is Hard to Find" released on 12 inch records was the first jazz "LP" (LP = long playing). It was put out in 1940 by Commodore records.

In 1942 the 1st New York City Carnegie Concert Hall jazz sit-down performance was headlined by Fats Waller. By the by, on some early jazz recordings because Fats Waller was under contract with Victor when he played on some other records he's credited as simply "Maurice".

1942 was incidentally the year of the first jazz concerts Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) on television ( back then had about a 3 inch screen). However that soon stopped after only 4 programs due to a general kind of wartime edict.

The 1st Newport Jazz Festival held at the city's open air casino was attended by 6,000 people. That was in 1954 when Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie performed among about 18 other jazz musicians.

Bellow is the 1942 promotional flyer for the Carnegie Hall concert and Fats Waller playing at the event. Admission to that concert was as low as $0.75.
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And here we are in 2024. The progress seems to have stalled somewhat.

 

[Soandso]

Jazz advanced race and international relations.

Here's back-in-the-day jazz drummer Kaiser Marshall, Ron Cless on clarinet, "Wild Bill" Davison on cornet, Sandy Williams on trombone and the great James P. Johnson on piano:

Next photo down memory lane is trumpet player Hot Lips" Page soloing using a plunger mute impressing fellow band member saxophonist Bud Freeman:

More jazz legends' getting along together were Jimmy McPartland, Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong:

 

[Ropeburn]

And here we are in 2024. The progress seems to have stalled somewhat.

That torch has been carried by Techno for decades now. Although less political, it's the most global, democratic and equalitarian kind of music mankind has created yet.

 

[Soandso]

[Jazz advanced race relations ... continued].

Warming up for a Paramount Theater performance are trombonist Tommy Dorsey, cornetist Louis Armstrong, drummer George Wettling, with Bud Freemsn on sax, the iconic "Pops" Foster on bass and Eddie Condon playing guitar.

Some more early greats playing together are l. to rt. "Cutty" Cutshall, Ruby Braff with clarinet and tenor saxophone player Herb Hall (brother of clarinetist Edmond Hall):

As early as 1936 in the 52nd Street, New York City jazz scene there was this mixed race band with Red Allen playing trumpet with (l. to rt.) guitarist Eddie Condon, pianist Joe Bushkin, clarinetist Joe Marsala and Morty Stuhlmaker on bass…

 

[Soandso]

... the most global, democratic and equalitarian kind of music mankind has created yet.

Yeah, that'd be jazz!

Here's the standing American jazz great Sidney Bechet, with the notable clarinetist "Pee Wee" Russell off to the right sitting next to "Happy" Caldwell on tenor sax among many other mixed race musicians.

Then there's the incomparable "Duke" Ellington at the piano with the genius Artie Shaw on clarinet while innovative drummer "Chick" Webb sweeps the brushes:

Take a good look at this 1942 congenial mixed race audience for a jazz concert series at Town Hall on 42nd St., N.Y.C.:

 

[Descartes]

Never been a fan of jazz the only jazzy music I enjoy is Brazilian Bossa Nova!
- Astrud Gilberto
- Jao Gilberto
- Stan Getz
- Antonio Carlos Jobin

Occasionally, I also enjoy Louis Armstrong as I like his voice!

 

[pablolie]

That torch has been carried by Techno for decades now. Although less political, it's the most global, democratic and equalitarian kind of music mankind has created yet.

Needs a why do humans like techno thread.

 

[Shorty]

Needs a why do humans like techno thread.

Lots of people feel the need to belong to a tribe. And Techno is one such tribe.

 

[Ropeburn]

Needs a why do humans like techno thread.

I have some ideas as to why, involving tribalism, primal instincts, the psychological core of humanity and culture, and the connection to a globalised, industrialised world. Maybe I'll make such a thread.

 

[Pearljam5000]

We need a new thread:
How can any human not like Nirvana

 

[rank]

Politics again & again.

 

[Multicore]

Lots of people feel the need to belong to a tribe. And Techno is one such tribe.

That tribe is not primarily about the music. The music serves a purpose for the tribe, a very important one but it is secondary to the tribe's main purpose. We went to Tribal Gathering 94 and had the time of our lives but the music is pretty boring out of that context.

Sturgeon's Law applies as it does to most things including jazz (there, see how cleverly I got us back on topic?).

 

[Multicore]

Needs a why do humans like techno thread.

If we can start it with a youtube 'splainer as hilariously idiotic as the opener for this thread then I'm all in.

 

[Godataloss]

I like jazz because it enables musicians and vocalists to emote in ways that are not always present in other forms of music. I tend to favor the classics- Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Loius, Horace Silver, Miles, Monk, Gilberto, Bonfa, Getz, Jimmy Smith.

 

[Deleted member 58670]

Lots of people feel the need to belong to a tribe. And Techno is one such tribe.

That, plus drugs…..

 

[rank]

Jazzmen were junkies very often.

 

[Timcognito]

Improvisation in Jazz is communication the allows sharing of unscripted information not only among the musicians but those listening. In Jazz the variations of the improvisation require a greater than casual involvement in the underlying melody, timing and chromatic elements no less than a sport or game that requires visceral coordination among a team members. Other kinds of music does have this but in Jazz no two performances are the same as this variation is expected and desired part of the act.