When is the last time you saw a jazz festival that had all jazz musicians? Does this even matter in 2023? I'm poking the bear and asking some serious questio...
I went to a jazz festival in Idyllwild California. I wanted cool jazz. There was no cool jazz. Hell, I would have "settled" for bebop.
There wasn't even a saxophone, for fuck's sake (I play sax). :jazz-passion: :jazz-ecstacy:
Pretty sure the headliner was some second runner-up from one of the bad seasons of American Idol. Not even a single quartet!
Now that I think about it further, there wasn't even anyone playing a single jazz 12 bar standard! No fake books, no improv, very little swing syncopation, nothing!
I went to a jazz festival in Idyllwild California. I wanted cool jazz. There was no cool jazz. Hell, I would have "settled" for bebop.
There wasn't even a saxophone, for fuck's sake (I play sax). :jazz-passion: :jazz-ecstacy:
Pretty sure the headliner was some second runner-up from one of the bad seasons of American Idol. Not even a single quartet!
Now that I think about it further, there wasn't even anyone playing a single jazz 12 bar standard! No fake books, no improv, very little swing syncopation, nothing!