[Harp-L] jazz

[John Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, Are you kidding? Wrong tree indeed. Jazz has many forms. If HL isn't
jazz, than what is? What would you call what he played with Bela Fleck?
 I even play a little "jazz". It usually sound bluesy or funky, but it is
jazz to someone. 

hj
http://www.myspace.com/harmonicajohns



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> Chris/George/Tim M et al,
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>   Before we get into who can play Jazz on the diatonic, wouldn't it be more
> fruitful to discuss what contemporary jazz is?  I've never heard Howard Levy
> play any 'Jazz,' (can't find his tape Harmonica Jazz for love nor money in
> England) but have always seen his contribution to albums like The Sultan's
> Picnic by Rabih Abou Khalil as applying an advanced western jazz training to
> another culture's musical tradition.  What's the difference between 'Jazz' and
> 'improvised music' today?  Is 'Jazz' playing the head of a 'standard' then
> improvising over the changes? What are 'Jazz standards' today, and why should
> any musician be constrained by them.  Hasn't Jazz had to move away from its
> roots in ragtime/new orleans marches/1930's showtunes etc to survive and grow?
> If so anyone playing heavily improvised music incorporating jazz 'devices'
> over anysort of musical framework is a jazz player, and there are lots of them
> on this list, or ami i barking up the wrong tree...