Seems like another thread you’ll have to close to comments soon!Ha ha!

Lori,joking aside,i actually have been moved enough by Vaugh Williams’ Tallis Fantasy,especially the part around 4 minutes in the piece,with the lofty orchestration and arragements,that i went to a specialised record shop to get at least an album of Thomas Tallis’ work.I ended up with a collection of quite enjoyable compositions for vocal ensembles.

Who’s joking? Buddy Freak’s “Desolate Shore” is a classic tune. That exploration of it by the James Nance quartet was magnificence personified.

If you examine what they’re actually playing from a music theory perspective, you will discover how intelligent it really is. Ok, it may not be melodic, memorable or pleasant to the ear, but it’s syncopated, atonal, full of tension and totally original. And as you all know, those are the most important ingredients in music.

And we also know that if you can’t appreciate that, you must be a tiny, ignorant fool, who must be verbally lambasted in those little “jazz clubs” we know as internet forums…And let’s face it, it’s the forum dwellers who know where it’s REALLY at.

Ok, I’m off to don my cardigan and slippers and play some very clever jazz. Niiiiiice…

I have a piece by Steve Vai which is incredibly intelligent but it sounds like a bunch of noise. It’s on Flex-Able leftovers.

Music is emotion, not intelligence. Nice vid

Two words.. “Jazz Odyssey”

xD

’nuff said =)

That’s the best jazz I ever heard.

Hilarious! I went to school with guys like that…but then again some of us metalheads can be just as snobbish and elitist.

I love The Fast Show so very much!

Great…

> Ok, it may not be melodic, memorable or pleasant to the ear…

Admitting it is the first step to recovery.

> …but it’s syncopated, atonal, full of tension and totally original. And as you all know, those are the most important ingredients in music.

There’s a difference between good music, and what sounds like an assortment of instruments being run over by a large truck. What I just heard made me want to blow up what’s left of the instruments.

Matthew: Hmmm…I guess you just don’t UNDERSTAND jazz then. The first step in “understanding” jazz is to wrap your whole musical identity up in “being into jazz”. That way, when anybody mocks it, you will automatically take offence, and leap valiantly to the defence of jazz. See how easy it is?

For further reference, I recommend checking out some of the forums that berated Lori for daring to say that she hates jazz…It’s quite an eye-opener.

Hehehe!

Niiiiiice stuff!

Haha, what show is that off again? ive seen it a few times before

The only thing better than that are some of the reactions to Lori’s winged words of wisdom on Jazz … Man, some people are really shortsighted

BTW:

I never quite got why Johnny can still walk the streets without a skimask …

I actually like the type of stuff portrayed in that sketch. Dissonance can be just as expressive as melody when used effectively. That aside, Lori, you’re the only lady guitarist that can hold a candle to the greatest male lead guitarists and I love your style!