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My 12 year old daughter is having her (our!) first Band Camp experience. Before we left last night, some of the staff put on an impromptu Jazz concert - 5 musicians who never played together before...trumpet, alto sax, double bass, piano, percussion...

...as I was listening to the concert I came to a conclusion...

...I don't like Jazz...

...it wasn't just them...although I commend them for putting together a 40 minute concert in no time at all...it wasn't, in my opinion, very good...it was the music itself...it all sounded the same! So what's the point?...

...and sadly to say...I was least impressed by the double bass player, apparently a prof. at the University of North Carolina (?)...

...they did well on a Norah Jones improv., but the rest was just noisy and was well on the way to giving me a headache...if it wasn't a Band Camp (re: learning experience) I would have left...
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Whenever I hear someone in my school's jazz band play a solo/improvisation/cadenza kind of thing, I get the impression that they're just playing random notes...
I think Jazz is boring anyway. Maybe if they wouldn't play the same thing again and again and again and again and again.


and again.
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