icy opining

very cold day not just freezing but negative on the eff scale i really like the word subzero last night we watched the film thelonious monk straight no chaser it is remarkable how similar he and i look we are practically identical i love his work it made me miss the days of jazz so i began wondering how jazz died some would say jazz is not dead but jazz seems less than alive nowadays it has at least fallen asleep my theory is as follows the same technology that made jazz possible also brought about its demise because the advent of recording equipment was necessary for jazz to bud since it is all about capturing these individual virtuoso performances yet you also need clubs that will provide a place for musicians to play so that they can develop their genius sorta like how standup comedians work live crowds for a span and then deliver the material refined therefrom in a recorded special but returning to jazz once this technology was in place to allow for the preserving of performances all the live clubs stopped employing human musicians and instead installed sound systems to pump music thru electronic speakers therefore prerecorded productions overthrew the live culture however i have also heard that bebop sank the jazz ship because bebop was not danceable and if you look at the people in the audience this seems to be true for they are calmly sitting at their tables smoking cigarettes not on their feet moving i myself love danceable jazz every bit as much as bebop (the way that i dance works for both i just spin around slowly) i even love what some call white jazz or swing jazz the smooth easy listening big band jazz all shades and hues are desirable to me i judge genres of music the same way that i judge people not by their color but by the content of their character and boy o boy do i judge them harshly