{"id":24142,"date":"2019-01-19T12:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24142"},"modified":"2019-12-03T08:09:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:09:26","slug":"musings-on-elements-of-jazz-from-cakewalks-to-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/19\/musings-on-elements-of-jazz-from-cakewalks-to-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI go through phases listening to these CD courses, and I think I’ve figured out the secret. I tend to accumulate courses in subject areas with which I’m already familiar, like philosophy or literature, and they underwhelm or bore me. That, and if they’re a summary course from the 21st century, I’ll find enough to disagree with politically to not really want to finish them. But something I’m not really familiar with, such as deep dive history courses (not summary courses) or music courses, these I listen to with some zeal, and I learn a lot more from them probably because they’re completely new knowledge to me and not merely rehashing what I already know.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed this course for those reasons, if they are the real reasons why I get away from listening to these in the car, and because I rather like jazz music, but I’ve not really been educated in it. Until now, a bit.<\/p>\n

The course is eight lectures. The first seven talk about a building block in the evolution of jazz, and the last has the lecturer, a known jazz pianist, improvising with some other artists to illustrate how it works. The building blocks include cakewalks, ragtime, blues, swing\/big band jazz, boogie and bop\/bebop, and modern jazz including free jazz, cool jazz, and fusion.<\/p>\n

I’ve learned a heck of a lot about music, including what syncopation means (although I’ve read the word, I’ve never tied it to the actual sound<\/em>), the origins of the words in jazz (jazz, ragtime, bebop, and so on). And I’ve identified the styles of jazz I prefer (swing, cool jazz, and fusion)–although I would have probably guessed these. Also, I like free jazz like I like Matisse<\/a>. Which is not at all.<\/p>\n

So I’m glad to have spent, what, six hours on this course. I wish it were longer. I wish I could play a boogie woogie bass line on the piano. I have tried<\/em> because of this course. So take that as an endorsement.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I have a five foot shelf of other courses which on DVD and\/or fit the bill of courses that I have mentioned aren’t the ones I get the most from. So expect other entries in this series irregularly.<\/p>\n

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