dagblog - Comments for "Jazz And Hip-Hop: The Intersection" http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/jazz-and-hip-hop-intersection-17060 Comments for "Jazz And Hip-Hop: The Intersection" en Thank you so much for this http://dagblog.com/comment/181579#comment-181579 <a id="comment-181579"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/181577#comment-181577">All of the jazz guys were not</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Thank you so much for this comment, Mike.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 18 Jul 2013 03:32:29 +0000 Orion comment 181579 at http://dagblog.com All of the jazz guys were not http://dagblog.com/comment/181577#comment-181577 <a id="comment-181577"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/jazz-and-hip-hop-intersection-17060">Jazz And Hip-Hop: The Intersection</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>All of the jazz guys were not only greater improvisers but they were eclectic and adaptable.  Jazz converged from so many other forms of music with ragtime, big bad/swing, African and African-American spirituals, Blues and Bluegrass and Gypsy notes all converging over time.  And, Jazz managed to encompass all of the styles that came after.  The classics so frequently show up in the background of contemporary hip hop <em>Bitches Brew</em> remains unique, the Tiajuana moods of Mingus beat any of the lounge revival of the 90s and Aughts and, man... I have Dizzy Gillespie playing 80s style trumpet somewhere and that is a scream, figuratively and not.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:57:16 +0000 Michael Maiello comment 181577 at http://dagblog.com