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Old Jul 9 2008, 3:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Gilbert View Post
I'm going to guess that he is going to start listing off concepts in Jazz that I haven't heard of. But let's keep in mind that this is doesn't prove anything
Actually, it does. It proves that you don't know enough about jazz to argue that it isn't complex, and so you don't know about the complexity involved in the genre.
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my claim is that Jazz musicians would have us believe that there are ideas of extreme complexity which they are processing at any moment when playing a tune,
Are you saying that every classical tune is incredibly complex?
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but I would argue that most of Jazz is just deducing the mode, picking a scale, and mimicking motifs from either the tune or from others' solos.
I would argue that a great deal of classical music is also based off of scales and motifs.
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