Comments | patrick___: Where have all the jazzy gone?

patrick___

Where have all the jazzy gone?

Mar 23, 2016 08:28

Popular music definitely goes in waves for what's trendy and what's not. Something I've begun to notice over the last few years is how "jazz" influences in popular music are most definitely not very trendy right now. Certainly not compared to the 1990's and early 2000's, when everyone from hip hop artists, to indie bands, to rave DJs, to punk ( Read more... )

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patrick___ May 20 2016, 15:27:38 UTC

Man, that's a really good point. Straight ahead rock is really on the decline compared to how it was 10 years ago. In the mid 00's there was a plethora of straight ahead rock bands out there (e.g., the White Stripes, the Strokes, the Hives, the Vines, etc, etc, etc). It seems like a lot of the "rock" bands getting press right now tend to be of the folk, electronic, or psychedelic variety. I'm sure it'll come back, but it's definitely in a lull right now.

Something rock has going for it (that jazz never had) is a more basic accessibility to it. Although it's interesting to wonder if a 100 years from now whether or not straight ahead "rock bands" will exist in the same way we think about them now. Probably not in the stadium filling, rock legends variety, I'm guessing.