What artists do you recommend?

[clifford_thornton]

14 eh? It took me until I was about 19 to really get into jazz. Of course, there weren't forums as nice as this one even in the 1990s.

Nice bunny pic, by the way.

[DaxWax]

If you like All Blues, check out Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth.

Will do

14 eh? It took me until I was about 19 to really get into jazz. Of course, there weren't forums as nice as this one even in the 1990s.

Nice bunny pic, by the way.

It's basically because I'm doing it in music at the moment Although I do love it

Yeah this forum is really nice - I prefer it to the 'AllAboutJazz' forum so far

And I guess this forum is linked up with the 'disqus' comments website because the rabbit picture is on there - and it came up automatically on here

[Shrdlu]

Enjoying jazz should not be about study.

Spot on, Bev! I've toiled through a lot of stuff that one is supposed to like, over the years. Bottom line, go for what sounds good to you.

That comment, Bev, applies to all of life, including one's personal relationships. A very profound, yet simple observation. Sadly, most teens and 20s are not confident enough to follow it.

[A Lark Ascending]

It's always well worth listening to those with a wider experience of music than yourself (or a wider experience of a particular area of music). Just don't feel obliged to like what they like or follow their suggestions if they don't suit.

Most of the teens I teach are perfectly capable of finding their own way - they are perhaps more susceptible to commercial pressure but that's just lack of experience. In general they are trying to establish an independent identity, just like we all did, by trying on different clothes.

I'm more impatient with the adults who rush to align themselves with the tastes of dominant personalities.

[Shrdlu]

Most teens and early 20s that I know are very timid, and are glued to their laptops and Wiis at home or their mates' places.

About three months ago, I finally persuaded four lads, average age 20, to go clubbing with me. They are my son's mates. (I usually go on my own, because everyone I know hems and haws and won't go out.) We all went downtown in my car. When we all arrived at the club, they weren't quite ready for us to go in, so I went into the watering hole next door, to get warm (it was a cold, rainy night). There was also some electro house in there. The lads all vanished while my back was turned, and an hour later I got a txt saying that they had gone home in a taxi. Arrgggh! It was a great evening at the club, and they missed out on a treat.

[A Lark Ascending]

Well, kids vary from the ultra-timid to the eternal party-goers.

I have to say that some of the stories I hear (or overhear) on a Monday morning make my toes curl!

But then I don't go clubbing!

[DaxWax]

I'm not a 'timid teen'

Actually can you guys maybe give me advice,

I'm in the process of recording an album - and I was thinking of doing something like Beethoven did? He wrote a set of scores in every single key - C maj/min, C# maj/min, D maj/min etc - do you think it'd be interesting/different enough if I did this for an album, but in loads of different genres?

[Shrdlu]

Hi, Daxie! I didn't mean that you are timid.

I think you are thinking of Bach's "Well Tempered Klavier" series, though maybe old Ludwig van also did that. When Bach did it, they had just developed the modern piano, with three strings for most notes, and tuned so that it was slightly "off" in all keys, but still very playable. Its predecessor, the harpsichord (as well as sounding shit), has to be tuned for each new key, or it sounds as sour as a lemon.

So, Mr Bach wrote a series of exercises in every major and minor key. As well as being exercises, they sound good too. Other lovely works by JSB are his "Brandenburg Concertos". I think there are five of them. They can get very addictive.

[DaxWax]

Hi, Daxie! I didn't mean that you are timid.

I think you are thinking of Bach's "Well Tempered Klavier" series, though maybe old Ludwig van also did that. When Bach did it, they had just developed the modern piano, with three strings for most notes, and tuned so that it was slightly "off" in all keys, but still very playable. Its predecessor, the harpsichord (as well as sounding shit), has to be tuned for each new key, or it sounds as sour as a lemon.

So, Mr Bach wrote a series of exercises in every major and minor key. As well as being exercises, they sound good too. Other lovely works by JSB are his "Brandenburg Concertos". I think there are five of them. They can get very addictive.

Yeah it's the Well Tempered Klavier! I remember now

I think as well as this I could write some dubstep songs in Sonata Form or something like that? I think it'd be great to really mix classical with modern music as much as you can, I think The Strokes wrote a lot of their stuff in sonata form though already

Oh while I'm in here, for the music homework is asks 'What is the tonality of this piece' (for All Blues) and I feel like a right idiot not knowing what that means ...care to help?

Thanks though Shrdlu!