>I should have specified that I like the more popularly-oriented bands from the '10s-'30s that serious jazz fans often aren't too fond ofOh lol. I admiteddly don't know much jazz from that time period but would love to hear more about it.
>Listening to recordings from that era is a bit of an odd experience for me in that it's pop-oriented music that completely predates both the album era and performers being expected to come up with their own material.Yeah it is strange hearing recordings from pre 1940's for me. You can hear it was a whole different world, it bleeds into the music almost. Hitler's defeat plunged us into a world of darkness and pain that was never meant to be.
>Since there tended to be a common pool of songs that musicians were drawing from, there's a lot of crossover in terms of pieces played.I'm not used to that really, a lot of stuff I've listened to has been diffuse source material inspirations from all over the place haha.
>He's kind of sui generis for '30s jazz due to his idiosyncratic style with proto-exotica traitsThat sounds really cool, I like exotica lounge music a lot.
>Then there's the whole later aspect of his career as an electronic music pioneer.Yeah isn't it cool with artists can switch up and play wildly differnt styles like that?
>a lot of what I've heard of the Delta or Chicago blues bores me to tearsSame. I like a bit of blues rock, but I guess I would consider that a different genre wholly from blues. Jazz always interested me more, I've listened to a ton of jazz. You can run the gamut from stuff that sounds like just random noise to really catchy tunes to fusion blends of jazz-rock, metal-sounding stuff.. very versatile
>Overall though I don't get the appeal of most of it as a genre. Yeah, it was raw for its time, but I don't see it as very appealing when there's so much more out there now.I think a lot of it is academic type White guilt liberal arts professors people in a mad dash to venerate their negrophilic saints, personally. The musicianship of jazz demands respect. Some blind, poor black man playing guitar badly and wailing about his ex breaking his heart is just sad man, I don't wanna gawk at that and huff his farts and elevate him to some undeserved cultural
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