{"id":17527,"date":"2012-10-15T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=17527"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:28:42","slug":"evocative-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2012\/10\/15\/evocative-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Evocative Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to make jazz music more than just background music<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Noah Ottinger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What draws me to jazz more than, say, acid rock, country, or disco, is not so much the music itself.\u00a0 Yes, I definitely love the typical \u201csound\u201d in which we classify jazz (which we do sometimes a bit too readily), and there is definitely a rhythmic freedom to it that I find downright electrifying at times.\u00a0 No, what really attracts me to jazz is how wonderfully evocative it can be, and how there are definite distinct moods and seasons associated with different styles.<\/p>\n<p>When I put on an album, I am never listening just for the sake of melody or pure appreciation.\u00a0 The songs that I really connect with are always the ones that are able to conjure up some sort of scene within me.\u00a0 In that way, I find jazz to be more like following a story than an output for raging testosterone or sympathetic exhales.\u00a0 It gives me more than emotional zig-zags and conversational canvas pieces, but something nostalgic almost.\u00a0 Like an old film. Take, for example, the well-known and well-loved jazz standard \u201cGoodbye Pork Pie Hat\u201d by Charles Mingus.\u00a0 Upon hearing this particular ballad, so haunting and beautiful, I always picture this particular scene in my head.\u00a0 There is always a man sitting at the bar alone in a dark tavern.\u00a0 He has lost everything.\u00a0 What he has lost and the reasons behind it do not matter.\u00a0 It is an image conjured by the artist, and carried and brought to life by the heart and mind, played in the foreground as the song turns from beginning to the end.\u00a0 The same can of course be said for such season-oriented songs as \u201cLinus and Lucy\u201d by Vince Guaraldi (try not to picture the Charlie Brown) or my personal favorite for purposes of imagining, \u201cMagic Cup\u201d by Gregory Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz is not comfortable with staying in the background of coffee shops as homework fodder to go with double shots of espresso.\u00a0 It should not be ignored.\u00a0 I invite you to let your mind wonder places and let Django Reinhardt or Louis Armstrong be the background to your own private movie.\u00a0 Good travels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jazz in the Morning airs every weekday from 6-9 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6sfe_8RAaJ0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to make jazz music more than just background music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"featured_media":17528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1254,1253,1252,1258,9,1255,1257,1115,1256],"class_list":["post-17527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-charles-mingus","tag-evocative-jazz","tag-goodbye-pork-pie-hat","tag-gregory-porter","tag-jazz-in-the-morning","tag-linus-and-lucy","tag-magic-cup","tag-noah-ottinger","tag-vince-guaraldi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_ljkhk7Olni1qj1jobo1_500.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}