Kent Williams wrote:
quoted 7 lines Why is it that whenever an electronic musician borrows from jazz it's> > Why is it that whenever an electronic musician borrows from jazz it's
> > always the corny middle-of-the-road boring lounge jazz that no real jazz
> > head has taken seriously since my father was in diapers? Luke Vibert can
> > appropriate this style to good *deliberate* ironic effect, but everybody
> > else seems to think they're really jamming. I'd like to hear somebody
> > take a good whiff of Albert Ayler or Cecil Taylor up their sampler. Why
> > doesn't somebody take some chances?!?!
Hmmm...it seems to me that Luke Vibert really digs some jazz himself (check the sax
section bit on the Plug remix of the recent Jammin' Unit 12") - he doesn't always seem
to be employing irony in his choice of samples. Some of Throbbing Pouch does have some
of that cheeky George Benson-style jazzak, though...
quoted 5 lines If you want to sound 'jazz-like' you can do it without much though. Just> If you want to sound 'jazz-like' you can do it without much though. Just
> add the major seventh to your chords (a major seventh is the note right
> below the root note of the chord. For example, C major is CEG, and C Major 7
> is CEGB). Then if you transpose up a half step, you sound very
> jazzlike.
Major 7? Shirley you mean C7 (with a flat 7 as the top note (C E G Bb), that's really
more of a jazz thang. Major 7ths have quite a hymn-like, majestic sense to them,
especially if you double the 7th e.g. BEGB/C...
GD