..............it still contains the main ingredients of good jazz, that is, rhythm, sophisticated chord structure, improvisation, and a degree of difficulty that weeds out the 'pretenders'.
chas
Now, no offence here, and I have he fullest respect for most here - including you Chas
- but it is lines like this that cause the impression that Jazz folk ARE elitist, and snobby....and I have come across quite a few...sadly.
Just because someone cannot play the licks and chops as fast or as good as someone else should in NO way exclude them from playing and enjoying Jazz, whatever form it takes.
Maybe it was not intended, but it does come across that way imo.
The more playing it the better I reckon...and some of the "hardened pros" should maybe set back a while and at least give credit to the pretenders
rather than "put-downs"....
Dennis
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