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Old Jul 9 2008, 7:51 PM
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I am boiling with anger, just after reading the title.

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Giant Steps (with actual sheetmusic so classical musicians can understand)
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Leap Frog (Intense solo dueling between Charlie Parker and Dizzy gillespie)
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Straight no Chaser (An Awesome example of Big Band exellency)
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now tell me that jazz isn't complicated.

Edit:

Here's a good example on how much emotion goes into jazz soloing. It's just not puking out notes (as Giant Steps makes you believe)

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Adrian Mears
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