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You know why there's so many smooth jazz players, right? Commercially, that's the genre that does best now.

: ( There are so many great players that sold out to do elevator music. Eric Marienthal is an amazing sax player. His tone is so fierce and distinctive too. Only problem is he's mostly smooth jazz.

I'm not a fan of smooth jazz either...the only time I listen to that is when someone has the Weather Channel turned on. ninja

My combo just had a performance for our high school's Spring Fest. Our pianist and guitarist insisted on playing Chameleon, because they kept saying how people will think it's bad a**. I've never even looked at it! I don't even have the book they were reading from.
They also insisted on playing Windows, when they know how uncomfortable I am with that one.
And our last song was Seven Steps to Heaven, which I honestly don't think any of us are capable of actually soloing well to. It was awful, I pretty much just had to play as fast as I could without thinking, or else any mistakes I made would stick out.

: ( I can't believe they would insist on playing songs we most likely would have a hard time with, just because they thought that the other kids would like them.

What DM bands do you like?

You don't know me well enough to make comments like that. As I said, I'll listen to music before I insult it. I tell someone I don't think I'll like that kind of music, but I'll listen to it to see if they can prove me wrong. Often I was right, and I didn't like the music, but there are occasions when I've been wrong and I'm free to admit that.

I'm ashamed. Have any of you been lectured by Keith Jerritt or Chick Corea, the one about Genre's?

Dont piss on Death Metal; there's very few of you who could match some very fast, pretty technical licks of their's.

Now I prefure what's been labeled as Punk and Jazz.... and they seem way off, but i can imagine John Coltrane jamming with Black Flag. Hey a good example of the fusion of the two is The Stooge's Second Album (cant remember it's name right now... Fun House?) that has a saxamaphonist, who's solo stuff is very safisticated.

All I can say is that it´s their loss. If you won´t even try to listen to a genre, you shouldn´t make fun of it. But hey, that´s his ignorant opinion and he´s entitled to it. My brother also loves death metal and black metal, but one thing I do appreciate is that he sometimes comes to my jazz concerts. He sometimes even says "Good job" afterwards. But guess what? He hates jazz, as well as salsa, funk, soul, hip hop, tango, and lots of other music that I like. I don´t like death metal but I gave it a try. He doesn´t like jazz but he gave it a try. That´s the way it should be. You don´t have to like something, but you can at least show the respect to try it out.

Hm...it's random refrence time!

My friend hated Phantom of the Opera, just because I talked about it a little too much. Any time I mentioned it, she'd like, die. (Not literally, people)

Then when she came over to my house, we all watched it because we couldn't decide on a movie.

Now she thinks it's OK, but still dislikes the best Phantom of all.

But I digress.
That person you were talking about doesn't know what they're missing.

My favourite jazz song is Birdland.