Members Organ_Eyes Posted October 4, 2009 Members Share Posted October 4, 2009 I trust and hope that readers will - after reading this, be just as knowledgeable about Jazz as I am now !!! Yoga Bierra on Jazz An interview with the Master of Malapropisms. John : Can you explain Jazz? Yoga : I can't, but I will. 90% of all Jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong. John : I don't understand. Yoga : That is good, as anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. John : Do you understand it? Yoga : No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it. John : Are there any great Jazz players alive today? Yoga : No. All the great Jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. John : What is syncopation? Yoga : That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In Jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be Jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds. John : Now I really don't understand. Yoga : I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand Jazz that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -groovatious- Posted October 4, 2009 Members Share Posted October 4, 2009 Hehehe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 5ku14 Posted October 4, 2009 Members Share Posted October 4, 2009 Thats kind of, sort of exactly how I thought it might be like possibly. Basically I fully understand that I've got no idea about jazz. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Organ_Eyes Posted October 4, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 4, 2009 Thanks for the 'thumbs up' guys. If you like this sort of humour, there is pages of it on my web site ! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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