I feel like the vast majority of Jazz just 'sounds nice', hit me up with some seriously emotional jazz
Is there any Jazz albums that are emotional?
Connor Long
Owen Turner
so what you're saying is you just don't know how to listen to jazz
Christian Carter
This.
OP you have to pay attention to the sound, and try to contextualize each instrument with the player behind it. Pay attention especially to moments of improvisation- jazz is pretty good at making you cry if you want it.
Noah Garcia
Meh desu, I feel like so much of it is just wanky, like I love some Davis, Hancock and Alice Coltrane, but I just don't find it to be emotional or moving, it feels impressive and sounds really nice, but rarely does it say anything interesting or hit me in emotional spots like a rock artist would...
Noah Miller
Probably because the only emotions you recognize are "sad" or "angry" like almost all Sup Forumstants.
Jazz is capable of a much wider range of more subtle emotions than almost any other kind of music. You just actually have to listen to the details.
Unless you play jazz or compose music yourself, it will probably take months and months of listening to jazz before you really even start to catch on to those details a little bit.
Josiah Evans
There was a debate around emotion in playing vs. Feeling. It's along the lines of you can technically play with feeling, some people thought it was superior to emotional playing. I think it was a reaction against free jazz. It is interesting though, playing something that sounds sad or playing when you are sad. Or happy.
Henry Williams
Dominic Diaz
wat
Elijah Richardson
If you're listening to jazz for "emotional" as if you're listening to some teenager rock record then I would highly recommend for you to stop.
Most educated people such as myself, listen to jazz for the technique of the players and not some superficial "emotion"
Isaac Flores
What's the difference between feeling and emotion?
Oliver Thomas
>Most educated people such as myself, listen to jazz for the technique of the players and not some superficial "emotion"
Except all music is rooted in emotion
Jayden Brooks
Some players play their jazz and play it with their emotions.
Some others play their jazz technically knowing how to make sounds give a feeling to the audience.
In theory. Or so I read.
Jeremiah Miller
Jazz studies major here. Never got into any "music appreciation" courses but the long and short of it is that the best way to get into jazz is to play music yourself. An appreciation for technical mastery will stem from there. Keep in mind that there are a billion different "styles" of jazz, and perhaps you haven't found one for you? The origins of jazz stem from call-and-response and early American blues music that was born into existence as a reaction against the agony imposed on the musicians by their slaveowners. Grief, regret, addiction, and other working-class laments are common themes for jazz music. In layman's terms, rock music is often emotionally simple in it's delivery, whilst jazz musicians often experiment harmonically and create new chords on the spot to emphasize certain emotional elements and dull others. Think of it as a more human reaction to emotional stimuli- wavering around a melancholic theme and then changing to the next, sometimes wildly unstable, sometimes very structured.
Best of luck!
Austin Ortiz
Good point, perhaps it's a ridiculous debate. And then the next thing is the listener f-
Caleb Parker
no. that's dumb
the goal of music is to express emotion. technique is a tool for expressing emotion
Connor Sanchez
>the goal of music is to express emotion
ahh yes I remember being 13.
Jack Cook
What user's referring to is that there is a difference between player and composer, despite jazz musicians often playing both parts. I don't think anyone on this board is able to legitimately claim that music serves one sole purpose, be it to express emotion or otherwise.
Adrian Kelly
Is it really though?
Carter Parker
Yep. How wouldn't it?
Jack Perry
60s Mingus imo
Jack Richardson
How is user wrong?
Owen Foster
>How is user wrong?
lol
Adrian Brown
>I hove no argument
ok
James Rivera
gee imagine trying this hard to appear intellectual
Asher Stewart
t. never listened to Pharoah Sanders
Aaron Cruz
tijuanna moods,too
Jacob Cooper
why don't you "emotionally" suck my dick and ill tell you?
Jose Barnes
so many kids pretending they listen to Jazz are shitting on you.
Here's an actual recommendation of some emotional jazz
Isaiah Harris
>Most educated people such as myself, listen to jazz for the technique of the players and not some superficial "emotion"