One of the odder emails I have received recently

[Happy Jack]

[color=#800000][size=4]******* [font=arial, sans-serif]has posted the following wanted ad which may interest you:[/font][/size][/color]

[color=#800000][size=4][font=arial, sans-serif]Double bass & string quartet wanted: fusion e,[/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]I'm a drummer composer not looking to join an existing band but to co-form a new post-jazz based group as a side project that will ostensibly be a fusion based acoustic symphonic / chamber music ensemble with double bass and strings. ,[/font][/size][/color]



In truth, I'm not at all sure what post-jazz is (Bilbo, can you help?) but this is probably not ... erm ... me.

[paul_5]

We've had a few 'Jazz posts' on here, is it something like that?

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1355230764' post='1895608']
[color=#800000][size=4]******* [font=arial, sans-serif]has posted the following wanted ad which may interest you:[/font][/size][/color]

[color=#800000][size=4][font=arial, sans-serif]Double bass & string quartet wanted: fusion e,[/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]I'm a drummer composer not looking to join an existing band but to co-form a new post-jazz based group as a side project that will ostensibly be a fusion based acoustic symphonic / chamber music ensemble with double bass and strings. ,[/font][/size][/color]



In truth, I'm not at all sure what post-jazz is (Bilbo, can you help?) but this is probably not ... erm ... me.
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I'm told that WH Smith stock a fair few jazz mags, you could start your research there?

[Norris]

Is it a new service offered by Royal Mail?

[thisnameistaken]

Is it like alt-jazz, black jazz, viking jazz, or progressive vegetarian grindjazz?

Edited December 11, 2012 by thisnameistaken

[Skol303]

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1355231627' post='1895633']Is it a new service offered by Royal Mail?[/quote]

[discreet]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1355231566' post='1895632']
I'm told that WH Smith stock a fair few jazz mags...[/quote]

If anyone wants to borrow mine, they're in a bin liner under a hedge somewhere in Kent.

[Marvin]

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1355231627' post='1895633']
Is it a new service offered by Royal Mail?
[/quote]

'Service' is not in their vocabulary anymore

[Silvia Bluejay]

Keep 'em coming, guys (pun intended, of course...)!

[Marvin]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1355234103' post='1895697']
If anyone wants to borrow mine, they're in a bin liner under a hedge somewhere in Kent.
[/quote]

There's a joke in there about diligently trimming back a bush, but that would be far too smutty.

Edited December 11, 2012 by Marvin

[merlin]

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1355237800' post='1895771']
There's a joke in there about diligently trimming back a bush, but that would be far too smutty.
[/quote]Hehehe

[Silvia Bluejay]

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1355237800' post='1895771']
There's a joke in there about diligently trimming back a bush, but that would be far too smutty.
[/quote]

That's a relief you haven't mentioned the idea, then...

[Steve G]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1355234103' post='1895697']
If anyone wants to borrow mine, they're in a bin liner under a hedge somewhere in Kent.
[/quote]

They're yours are they........dirty boy

[Clarky]

"Jack, come join us"

[Bilbo]

'Post- Jazz' is one of those meaningless terms that probably indicates a lack of clarity and what it is not more than anything. I would expect this to be jazzy sounding but not swinging, complex harmonies but not that heavy on improvisation. Fact is, you need more detail like what kind of music is he refering to when he uses the term!

[Marvin]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1355241150' post='1895826']
[b]'Post- Jazz'[/b] is one of those meaningless terms
[/quote]

I thought it meant you just sat on the fence and couldn't really decide what you were playing. I'll get my coat.

[paulconnolly]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1355231566' post='1895632']
I'm told that WH Smith stock a fair few jazz mags, you could start your research there?
[/quote]

Bit of a typo there shirley?

[Norris]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1355241150' post='1895826']
'Post- Jazz' is one of those meaningless terms that probably indicates a lack of clarity ...[/quote]
So it's like jazz but you can't hear what the individual players are doing?

[4 Strings]

If post-war means peace time, isn't post-jazz something other than jazz?

What's the opposite of jazz? Palma Violets?

[Graham]

Post-rock and post-hardcore both tend to have a lot of elements of rock and hardcore but also have a lot of ambient and progressive elements - Cave In, Isis and Devil Sold His Soul are the first bands that jump to mind in those genres, though there are probably better examples - so maybe jazz structures with some progressive rock / fusion elements and string players in this case?

As has been said above "post-" is a fairly meaningless and broad term that can apply to more or less anything.

[Dad3353]

'Post-xxxx' means the opposite of 'pre-xxxx', that's to say 'following after'. What came after jazz..? Silence, perhaps, or music..?

[discreet]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1355335516' post='1897154']
What came after jazz..?[/quote]

Nurofen.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1355335719' post='1897160']
Nurofen.
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[mart]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1355335719' post='1897160']


Nurofen.
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PMSL.

It is so good to have you posting regularly again!

[Marvin]

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1355337710' post='1897185']
PMSL.

It is so good to have you posting regularly again!
[/quote]

He's eating more fibre in his diet. Oh, sorry wrong end of the stick.