Was jazz not derived from classical music? I would think a lot of musicians learned to read and play instruments by ear too and changed blues and classical into "jazz". Just because "real" jazz/black jazz comes from where ever it comes from doesn't mean that is what it is. Chicago blues was played/invented by primarily southerners who relocated to the city, but the music must be city blues right? Those guys were doing Robert Johnson style, but electric, with a band.

@@benjohnson4810 I think the meaning of the post is more about not getting too academic with jazz. There are alot of ways of thinking about music theory in general and the whole idea of jazz is the freedom to harmonically change things on the fly, to improvise. It belongs outside of classrooms it cant really be taught like that. Jimmy touches on this in the interview about how he grew up playing and guys would have different names for things before everything came so standardized, like sears and roebuck referring to rhythm changes

In short: no. The history of jazz goes back primarily to New Orleans Black horn band music, ragtime, and blues. Some classical harmony got in through the side door by way of its influence on the Tin Pan Alley songwriters, but it's not a foundational part of the DNA of jazz

He's amazing. Just found him tonight.

Sounds great

He's still doing them. I just saw a new one on the Bruno Online School channel.

They’re online already!

I think the biggest difference is until a certain time , jazz was a fairly popular music in a number of countries. Many people in those days grew up hearing songs played by jazz musicians (Autumn Leaves, All Of Me, Girl From Ipanema), they already knew jazz before even starting out.. Nowadays, people discover jazz in other ways, and often through schools and teachers. It’s less natural than it used to be. I remember when I played in Paris a few years ago, there were older people in the audience and they knew almost all the songs we played because it was their childhood. Those people weren’t musicians.

We do briefly mention it at the beginning!

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Out Of Nowhere!

@@DenisChangMusic👍🏻 awesome dude

I am fascinated by the stories of old school players!

The Real Book has so many alterations to dominate chords in the lead sheets that guitar students play it verbatim and that causes clashes with the pianist who are using their own alterations.

If I’m not mistaken “on top of the beat” means a little bit ahead , “on the beat” means right in the middle (as much as possible anyway)

@Denis Chang thanks for the reply. There's an excellent video on this unspoken rule titled "Who's in Charge of the of the Tempo" with Christian McBride and Gregory Hutchinson. The ebb and flow of jazz Bass and Drums.

@@jazzman1954 it’s a pyramid scheme hahaha