This is my first post. I am escaping right-wingers on Facebook. There are numerous Republicans on my Facebook page, I guess because of my demographic. I hope to communicate with people that have similar interests. Hipness is a missing quality in modern culture. I work with many people much younger than I am. When a famous jazz musician dies, I have to explain to my co-workers who they are, and I am lucky if I don't have to explain what jazz is. I have lashed together a sort of website on my Facebook profile. Maybe I will move it here. There are crickets chirping on my Facebook page.
Welcome and all that Jazz! Seriously, I love Jazz so I am sure to bump into you on here. Enjoy the forums!
I was in a debate with a Memphis resident while attending an Art Blakey concert (1989): is Memphis hip? I said "no", she said "yes". I said there were only a few hip people in Memphis. I was adamant, she was less so. So, let's hear it; is Memphis hip? I still say "no". I was working downtown in Memphis when the Grateful Dead played. The police moved in on the parking lot. I was on the third floor of the Peabody with the window open. All I could hear was people running. No yelling or anything, just rapid footsteps.
well I googled it and it seems to mean flood or swamp or a type of fish....either one doesnt really fit the song...but I guess it rhymes
Well it might be rather debatable. Many purists still feel that Chicago was a huge influence on Jazz but in my opinion without the movement in New Orleans we would not have the same quality. Nor would we have had swing or bebop or ragtime, Dixieland the list is endless, but to sum it up in the words of the great Duke Ellington "it's all music". With early Jazz the most fascinating thing is the cord improves that went on, it was simply brilliant and is still a standard today. Considering most of the very early well known musicians could not even read music, the talent abounds. What a legacy they have left us. Again, welcome to the boards
