Jazz vs. Rock: Musicanship and Imagination
Jim Lindsay is way cool, but Dave King is a Jazz Drummer. With a capital "J" and "D". It's a title like Juris Doctorate.
Often professionally trained and technically off the charts, (time signatures, poly-rhythms and the whole works) in the end, Jazz drummers lack imagination. Maybe I'm naive and it's just my taste but God can it be boring. Not that rock isn't. Rock and all of its sub-genres can be downright awful.
I am a firm believer though that you can find good music in any genre. Hands down. But eventually Jazz just makes me feel nothing.
Ok, I listen to jazz often, even traditional jazz, and thoroughly enjoy it, but I just think about the jazz world as a whole different planet made up of too many sixteenth notes and a cacophony of inter stellar 6/8 solos after solos after solos. Not Han Solo either. I mean we are being subjective here.
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