I’ve been listening to a lot of jazz recently.
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Listening to it was one thing. But researching which albums I should start with, and searching through spotify to find the best recordings of each album made me realize a couple things:
- In Jazz, there were a lot of “covers” and “remixes” and “guest artists”
- Studio albums are great, but live recordings are better once you are familiar with the music. And, in my extremely limited experience, hearing these songs live-in-person is the ultimate.
Now, that I am listening and reading through Nathaniel Whittemore’s “Best Dance Tracks of 2012” I am starting to think that dance music–if any of it can stand the test of time–might end up being the ascendant to Jazz.
Am I crazy?
2 comments on “Dance is the new Jazz?”
Really great thoughts. From the standpoint of a genre that is iterative and sort of undermines whatever boundaries you put on it as soon as it can, they’re definitely similar.
I started intentionally listent to jazz, because I had previously just passively ‘consumed’ it, and felt like I was missing something. I have been more physically engaged with dance music, but again, didn’t really pay much real attention to the genre. I’m excited just to pay a little closer attention now.