circh bustom wrote:Willyz, with all due respect that seems a bit pretentious don't ya think? What are they supposed to stand around and not get into it? Im sure you would applaud a video where Elvin is so into it that he pops a cymbal off the stand. In a jazz club. Im sure you have gotten teary eyed over Tony blasting away at his drums. In a jazz club. This line of thinking may be why the jazz club is dying. Seeing the instrumentalists lay it all out in a physical way like that gets me excited that musicians still feel that way even about "jazz". Maybe that is just what is needed to get some jazz/fusion/etc back into big arenas and theaters like RTF and Mahavishnu. Im sick of the shoegazer jazz that has become the cliche. I wanna see sweat and tears when these guys are done.
That being said, I do understand if it is a pet peeve of yours, we all have them. Personally, I just think its a positive thing.
I don't think there's anything pretentious about that at all. Again, I did state that it doesn't take anything away from his playing, which is the most important part at all. It's just a bit distracting if I'm trying to watch the video as well as listen to the music. The Tony analogy is a bit of a stretch, because there isn't really anything distracting about Tony's thing visually, which is what we're discussing, right? At the end of the day if that's how you get into the music on stage, then great, providing it doesn't take away from the music. Just a pet peeve. Nothing more than that.
The jazz club is dying is another discussion altogether... and I think part of that is probably because of the cost of everything. After the cover charge, drink minimum, and what have you, it's an expensive night (especially some of the LA joints). Mix that with the fact that younger people aren't really exposed to jazz in a mainstream medium, and that they'd rather listen to Skrillex than appreciate something like be-bop, dig? The only people I know that are in to jazz/bop/fusion or whatever are musicians.
