Comments on: Jealousy http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2005/05/09/jealousy/ The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ben http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2005/05/09/jealousy/comment-page-1/#comment-4253 Ben Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:33:24 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=258#comment-4253 When I read that, as ever, magnificent and thought provoking entry, my first thought was to try and think of some jazz as bleak, just out of some sort of spirit of competitiveness. Much as I love jazz and classical music (if you like, you can imagine all sorts of cliches here about artificial and contrived boundaries between genres of music that exist only so people can put it in managable boxes and not, heaven forbid, think too hard about it. Possible superfluous Duke Ellington quote about how there are only two types of music, good and bad), I've always felt the need to fight jazz's corner, largely because that's the position I usually take in musical arguments with my dad - jazz is my world, classical is his. It was a struggle, and I know my jazz. Even at the most harrowing moments of Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, there's always the soaring alto sax of hope round the corner to cut through the churning seas of anger and despair, even if it is frequently tinted with a delicious melancholy. I think maybe sometimes Bud Powell approaches it, starting beautiful cascading lines only to sabotage them mid-flow as if to say 'well, why bother?', but it's not really the same sort of giving up, I see it as being troubled, deeply troubled, but not really resigned. That was a lot less interesting than I'd hoped, but I'm dosed up on some nicely numbing scotch, so I'm damned if I'm not submitting it. When I read that, as ever, magnificent and thought provoking entry, my first thought was to try and think of some jazz as bleak, just out of some sort of spirit of competitiveness. Much as I love jazz and classical music (if you like, you can imagine all sorts of cliches here about artificial and contrived boundaries between genres of music that exist only so people can put it in managable boxes and not, heaven forbid, think too hard about it. Possible superfluous Duke Ellington quote about how there are only two types of music, good and bad), I’ve always felt the need to fight jazz’s corner, largely because that’s the position I usually take in musical arguments with my dad – jazz is my world, classical is his.

It was a struggle, and I know my jazz. Even at the most harrowing moments of Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, there’s always the soaring alto sax of hope round the corner to cut through the churning seas of anger and despair, even if it is frequently tinted with a delicious melancholy. I think maybe sometimes Bud Powell approaches it, starting beautiful cascading lines only to sabotage them mid-flow as if to say ‘well, why bother?’, but it’s not really the same sort of giving up, I see it as being troubled, deeply troubled, but not really resigned.

That was a lot less interesting than I’d hoped, but I’m dosed up on some nicely numbing scotch, so I’m damned if I’m not submitting it.

]]> By: Claire http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2005/05/09/jealousy/comment-page-1/#comment-1787 Claire Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:20:33 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=258#comment-1787 yay bartok!<br/><br/>ooo that chord looks absolutely delicious! *writes chord on music paper and runs to piano to play it*<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>oooo that is good well it's bartok what do you expect?<br/><br/>"I myself imagine Bartok (or the ghost of Bartok) saying, right afterwards, "that, my friends, was the TONIC," with a wicked, joyous smile which bursts into a cackle as he walks off into the night."<br/><br/>hahahahahhahaha and that's only the tonic! what about the dominant and the mediant and everything else? muahahaha! evil, but genius yay bartok!

ooo that chord looks absolutely delicious! *writes chord on music paper and runs to piano to play it*

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oooo that is good well it’s bartok what do you expect?

“I myself imagine Bartok (or the ghost of Bartok) saying, right afterwards, “that, my friends, was the TONIC,” with a wicked, joyous smile which bursts into a cackle as he walks off into the night.”

hahahahahhahaha and that’s only the tonic! what about the dominant and the mediant and everything else? muahahaha! evil, but genius

]]> By: MEM http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2005/05/09/jealousy/comment-page-1/#comment-1518 MEM Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:57:34 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=258#comment-1518 Oops, here's the Permalink:<br/><br/>http://offbeater.blogspot.com/2005/08/temporary-beauty.html<br/><br/>mem Oops, here’s the Permalink:

http://offbeater.blogspot.com/2005/08/temporary-beauty.html

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]]> By: MEM http://jeremydenk.net/blog/2005/05/09/jealousy/comment-page-1/#comment-1516 MEM Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:59:59 +0000 http://jeremydenk.net/blog/?p=258#comment-1516 Jazz that doesn't "let go": Lennie Tristano. <br/><br/>If you haven't heard any yet:<br/><a HREF="http://offbeater.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Go here.</a><br/><br/>Nice blog...<br/>mem Jazz that doesn’t “let go”: Lennie Tristano.

If you haven’t heard any yet:
Go here.

Nice blog…
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