I owe much of my musical education to my mother who was a pretty good singer, a decent pianist and an overall lover of anything musical. She played a lot of New Orleans jazz in our house on the record player. But in all the varied genres she exposed me to, and there were many, she never once, that I can recall, actually put a name to wha…
I owe much of my musical education to my mother who was a pretty good singer, a decent pianist and an overall lover of anything musical. She played a lot of New Orleans jazz in our house on the record player. But in all the varied genres she exposed me to, and there were many, she never once, that I can recall, actually put a name to what we were listening to. She either loved it and played it, or it wasn't in the house (until I started bringing home the Beatles, etc...). I still can't define, for someone else, many of the genres of today. It's all music to me. I either love it or....don't understand it.
It seems that putting something as creative as music, or any art for that matter, into a genre hole is mainly a marketing problem. Hard to sell product if you can't say what it is, or describe it somehow.
I owe much of my musical education to my mother who was a pretty good singer, a decent pianist and an overall lover of anything musical. She played a lot of New Orleans jazz in our house on the record player. But in all the varied genres she exposed me to, and there were many, she never once, that I can recall, actually put a name to what we were listening to. She either loved it and played it, or it wasn't in the house (until I started bringing home the Beatles, etc...). I still can't define, for someone else, many of the genres of today. It's all music to me. I either love it or....don't understand it.
It seems that putting something as creative as music, or any art for that matter, into a genre hole is mainly a marketing problem. Hard to sell product if you can't say what it is, or describe it somehow.
Jazz? what a perfect name.....