jazz explained

[Quadcam79]

borrowed this from somewhere on the innerwebs...thought yall would enjoy it

Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?

Yogi: I can't, but I will. Ninety per cent of all jazz is half
improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are
playing something they never played with anyone who played that part.
So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it
might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's
wrong.

Interviewer: I don't understand.

Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it.
It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?

Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't
know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?

Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the
ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones
that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.

Interviewer: What is syncopation?

Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either
before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen
because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other
kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.

Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.

[Exotic Matter]

I couldn't have said it better myself.


Jazz is undeniable. (Throws in 'Love Supreme' and wishes it was an appropriate time of day to play drums)

P.S. Thanks, I've lost a lot of faith in this site as far as physically playing an instrument is concerned, but this was the perfect post to reinstall my faith in the musicians that DO exist on DC.

[Brady]

Hmm interesting... thanks for sharing Quadcam

[Gretschhead]

Quad that was hilarious! And so true...

[kermit]

genius and, like Gretchhead said (hehe it rhymes) - so true