What do you feel when you listen to Jazz music?

How is meaning derived from this music (for yourself )?


To which category does Jazz music belongs? "art, popular, folk/traditional, religious, etc...


Does Jazz music exemplify any unique aspects in terms of musical materials?|||Jazz is relaxing,calm and only for the cultured.enough said.|||The feeling I have depends upon the Jazz artist. The listener will respond differently to different kinds of Jazz. As the listener develops an ear for Jazz, other songs he/she did not "get" earlier are understood and felt. I love Miles Davis and John Coltrane for example, but I had a hard time following Thelonious Monk at first. However, after listening to Monk for awhile, I noticed the style and melody that didn't before. Jazz can fit the expectation of the listener or it can bend it and reshape it over time.





Jazz has established itself as its own category. It is definitely an art. It has a tradition of improvisation and breaking the rules of expectation. Take Ornette Coleman, a musician among the greats who didn't bother with the piano in his groups, which was a long time expectation of the listener. Critics at first didn't appreciate it. Today however, he is recognized as a "great."





One common standard/expectation of Jazz would be: A well known song is interpreted by the artist and replayed in such a way that the original song is distorted by any number of musical devices, yet remains recognizable to the listener. Take Vijay Iyer's remake of Jimi Hendrix's "hey joe."


Vijay Iyer renamed it "because of guns."


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Another expectation that musicians usually impose themselves is that any playing of one song two times in a row will be different from each other, yet will remain recognizable as that song. This creative element of Jazz is different from the classical musician's approach that expects perfection and repetition.





Each genre of Jazz has its own established norms. In some of the more traditional forms, a recognizable song will be interspersed with a solo performance by one of the members of the band. Other forms have several solo performances going at once|||I think Jazz is talented and great but I don't like how it sounds. It makes me feel awkward and squirmy.|||jazz makes me bored.|||Like "this is what I want to hear in heaven."