So why are most people completely uninterested or unaware of Bartok? Thad Jones + Mel Lewis Orchestra? Why do most people just listen to 2+4 stuff and not much else? There's no way it's that simple unless you spend your life listening to /mu/ and pitchfork reviews.
Have you heard a song you didnt like and then learned to love it? That's the entire modern experience with classical and jazz it seems. But how do you get people to care about pieces that are fourty minutes long or in a musical language that you don't understand? The goals in listening to this stuff are different than a Coldplay song or something.
So why are most people completely uninterested or unaware of Bartok? Thad Jones + Mel Lewis Orchestra?
Commercialism of music? Most people like mainstream artists because that's what has an advertising machine behind it.
in a musical language that you don’t understand
This is what I'm not processing. Plenty of jazz songs are cool at first listen, and it's not as of jazz is some hyper-exotic style that's foreign to mainstream listeners.
I feel like that's one half of the problem, sure, but I think the other half is the lack of exposure to the musics in our communities. Have you never been to a Jazz Club where everyone is completely buried in their phones, even the tunes with diatonic as fuck lyrical heads get ignored pretty quickly.
The first time I heard fucking *Donna Lee * I thought it was absolute noise. I like it now obviously but I disagree with your assertion.
....Anyone could... but no one does or cares to find out... How many people do you know that are not musicians themselves who dig Bird?
And you're telling me that all people can and will just sit through an entire Brahms symphony without falling asleep or getting incredibly bored? Thats crazy, thats not how it works at all
So why are most people completely uninterested or unaware of Bartok? Thad Jones + Mel Lewis Orchestra? Why do most people just listen to 2+4 stuff and not much else? There's no way it's that simple unless you spend your life listening to /mu/ and pitchfork reviews.
Have you heard a song you didnt like and then learned to love it? That's the entire modern experience with classical and jazz it seems. But how do you get people to care about pieces that are fourty minutes long or in a musical language that you don't understand? The goals in listening to this stuff are different than a Coldplay song or something.
Commercialism of music? Most people like mainstream artists because that's what has an advertising machine behind it.
This is what I'm not processing. Plenty of jazz songs are cool at first listen, and it's not as of jazz is some hyper-exotic style that's foreign to mainstream listeners.
I feel like that's one half of the problem, sure, but I think the other half is the lack of exposure to the musics in our communities. Have you never been to a Jazz Club where everyone is completely buried in their phones, even the tunes with diatonic as fuck lyrical heads get ignored pretty quickly.
The first time I heard fucking *Donna Lee * I thought it was absolute noise. I like it now obviously but I disagree with your assertion.
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....Anyone could... but no one does or cares to find out... How many people do you know that are not musicians themselves who dig Bird?
And you're telling me that all people can and will just sit through an entire Brahms symphony without falling asleep or getting incredibly bored? Thats crazy, thats not how it works at all