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I really have no idea what I could say that would completely satisfy my interpretation of jazz. > < I hate trying to answer this question.

bleh, I never vote without posting why I voted or some sort of comment.
That's just rude otherwise. Still, thank you.

Your definition is sorta what I had in mind, but the friend I mentioned a few times in another thread here, the one who's a death metal head, is actually a pretty solid soloist. He's spanish-classical too and has quite a bit of jazz background. With that, he's pretty set. Sadly he's the only death metal kid I know who understands jazz.

He's played for me some pretty interesting solos, and he claimed that jazz isn't the only venue for strong solos. I wasn't partial to any of the songs he played me, but I did give credit where it was deserved. These were actually melodic lines and phrases.

The other thing that stands out is when the piano player in my combo, the alto, and me all tried to explain to this kid why Charlie Parker solos are on a completely different level.

...anyway, my point is that a lot of music has improvisation. There's a local channel here with polka on in the early afternoon. Some of the tenor players on there take a mean solo, but I wouldn't call it jazz.

; ; labelling jazz is so hard.

Ella really goes all out when she scats.

This is tying into that thread I made the other day.
The fact that people can craft emotions with nothing but sin waves floating through the air... that's magic.

I told my mom's friend that I was pretty into music. She asked if I was good, so for the sake of simplicity, I just told her yes, nothing more.

Then she said, "Oh, so what does that mean? You can read music really fast?"

; ; I felt like crying.

No. I already learned my lesson that you can't argue with stupid people.

Oh, boy, life is sometimes difficult, eh sad Anyways, an additional point, and I'm going to refer back to classical music. When performing, musicians have to play the right notes, rhythms, etc. So, the question arises: is a good performer one that makes no mistakes? Not in my opinion. A good performer realizes the mistakes that they make and are able to effectively address them. Of course, mistakes can be fun. If you make some mistakes on purpose, it's really funny! xd domokun Wait a minute, what does this have to do with jazz? Some people think that you don't have to play the "perfect" notes or rhythms; play whatever you want. Most of jazz, however, is preplanned; the piece should be performed a certain way. But this shouldn't stop the performer from having fun. As I previously mentioned, a good performance isn't one without mistakes, but it is good if the audience can quickly get engaged.