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"There was one true Christian, and he died on the cross." - Fred

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Talk about a man who effortlessly captured his own brand.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MgD9TZB69Q

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I wish people would revisit Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Charles Mingus more. That was the peak of American Black culture.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y

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I think Jackson was absurdly talented and unfairly railroaded.

However, I'm revisiting the jazz station and Mingus is the shiz.

I have always enjoyed Coleman. He's like Django Reinhart or Anders Segovia but on the tenor sax.

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Most of it is. I stopped listening to jazz because artistically I disagree with it: structure is more important than licks.

Listen to enough of it and you hear the repeat patterns which makes the randomness seem sad.

But there were some great exceptions.

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Jazz has a lot of internal commentary and little overall direction. It is more social music.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Fp4znXvOg

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A great album, full of personality.

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oh. it's rather extensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus_discography

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You have your work cut out for you there!

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https://youtu.be/HDhRBI_B1t8 (mini doc about one of the best composers if not the most notable of modernity.)

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I have been enjoying middle-period Mozart lately. Classical is a huge and daunting field. It can be embraced by anyone however, starting anywhere, because all roads lead to all other roads.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcsgX9DTUg

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That's kind of why I like Mozart sometimes: he's nothing BUT catchy hooks. He just takes them to other worlds as well.

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Some of his style parodies are great like "Dare to be Stupid" and "I'll Sue Ya" aka the Rage Against the Machine song that's better than anything by Rage Against the Machine. "Dog Eat Dog" was a good Talking Heads style parody. There's that story of those punk rockers that came up to Weird Al and said "hey man we really love Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota." "White and Nerdy" and "Trapped in the Drive Thru" of course being better and more memorable than the original, but the gold standard for that might be "It's All About the Pentiums" which easily eclipsed the original in every way possible, even the video was better.

Going through the wiki just for the list of all of his songs and it says that "Albuquerque" is a style parody of The Rugburns and I can kind of see that since it did remind me a lot of "Dick's Automotive" and The Rugburns had a handful of decent songs too but no one even remembers they ever existed anymore sadly.

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The idea behind jazz was that you took a standard, or a popular tune, and jammed on it. The improvisation is naturally prone to comment on itself and be idiosyncratic.

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@Jazzy_Butts @coyote @russ @BoredStupid @a_rival_to_amazon @wjmaggos @basileion @dew_the_dew @balan @lccmv @neet @Hasheagle @sj_zero @Hollahollara @verita84 @amerika @zonz @sim I saw Gladys Knight live once in the 00s and she had a full choir with her. they did a lot of famous hymns like Blessed Assurance. she had a dude in her choir with a voice deeper and louder than mine; I was jealous.

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