Friday, November 24, 2006

Jazz Sweet Jazz Oh Yeah

Probably I'm the last one to figure this out but Jazz is amazingly sexy music. Son is in a History of Jazz class and so were listening to a lot of it right now. It occured to me today that good Jazz has many elements that make for great sex.

The groove gets your body moving, some of those solos can sound like someone whispering soft things in your ear. The songs get louder, softer, alternating intensity and mellowness. The intricacies of the beat, base lines, vocals and they way the whole thing magically hangs together is amazing. Just when you think you can anticipate what the next measure will bring, you're often in for a surprise. The players seems to be so involved with the music that it becomes part of them and they're just playing with all this sexual energy that spills out into their instruments and voices and the listener is carried along with it.

I'm not always the most observant person alive but man-o-man how did this ever escape me until now?

2 Comments:

Blogger Chunks said...

Oh the Jazz! I've always wanted to listen to Jazz and become a hip cat. Got any suggestions?

6:35 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rox, here's a clip of Mingus:
http://tinyurl.com/yl7sd2

Also, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

12:12 PM  

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