Music In The Bubble

Monday January 23, 2012

from http://southofdowntown.blogspot.com

Music In The Bubble
By:Kevin Laskey

Late yesterday evening, jazz critic Nate Chinen posted a rather innocuous tweet. He wrote, “Sometimes I think jazz musicians underestimate the appeal of a band performing without music stands.”

Cue firestorm.

I’m not going to report on everyone who said what, just that it touched a lot of nerves across various musical communities. Drummer Matt Wilson chimed in with remembrances of Dewey Redman. Sara Kirkland Snider and Judd Greenstein spoke from experience in the world of alt-classical. And of course the prodigious tweeter-cum-trumpeter Nicholas Payton had to get in on the action this morning (“It ain’t the tool, it’s the fool using it,” he said).

So I responded as well with the following tweet. “[I]s it that there’s less tune-learning by ear now & jazz people refer to selves as composers not songwriters?”

Chinen responded by noting that this is definitely a factor, but then noting the impressiveness of working bands that play complex music without charts – Vijay Iyer’s trio and the Bad Plus.

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Veil of Tears	14:24	Overtone Quartet
Victory! (Big Noise)	3:33	Street Drum Corps
Stand By Me	6:04	Playing For Change
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