new musician intro
fingers (fingers@microweb.com)
Sun, 10 Sep 1995 22:46:17 -0700
I have been reading the post on the e-mail list for 4 days and thought i
would say hi. I am a musican and have been for more than 30 years. i
make my living playing bass. I do records, clubs, hotels, industrials,
commercials, musicals, teach bass/music theory/arranging, and , well you
get the picture.
One thing that really has stood out about "new" forms of music, is that
there arent very many true new forms of music out there. I have played
acid jazz type music, but was doing it when I was 18. pl;aying soft or
hard boogalo type rythms, or st. eights, while having angular melody
lines on top with one or two chord vamps for solos. yes, I was alos
playing jazz and fusion, and classical and dixie, blues and al;l the
rest, and see and hear differences in the idioms, and kinda dig what you
call acid jazz because it is more accesable than fusion and way more
accesible than jazz. With jazz, when you have great musicians, one may
never really know what to expect, or what may happen at any time. Acid
jazz is much safer and tamer in my opinion. I like the danger associated
with the unknown, instead of the comfortable feeling you get listening to
formulas. Of course, some formulas i wil listen to because its how I feel
at any one time, say for instance, i may listen to Ivan Linns even
thought I know what to expect, instead of Hermento pascual where you cant
know. both Brazillian, and light years apart. When I hear different
bands in the "new age of naming music arenas", alot are very
interchangable, which is why you are able to group them all together and
name them something. Is this not so? Have I missed something? does
someone want to hip me to what I may not understand about this?
Fingers.