Experimentation equals Capitalization

[iceorchard]

I can't tell you how bored I get listening to harmony patterns that
esentially go nowhere. An anything goes approach that leads to
repitition, basket-full of notes and taste flies out the window.
When are we musicians going to admit that more does not mean better.
The old school guys concentrated on getting a personal sound. Cats
such as Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, decided that beauty and
simplicity are what we all want in our music. You can’t play a zillion
notes and get a real good sound simultaneously and today quantity is
replacing quality.
On the other hand must musicians are not good composers because
they’ve dedicated their time to mastering their instruments. So many
great songs were written between 1920 and 1980 absolutely the golden
age of American music. Composers understood that melodies had to be
unique and excellent harmonic progressions make the songs of Porter,
Gershwin, and others a delight to play on. The songs told a story and
they moved along interestingly taking us on a journey. Not the boring
stuff written today by so many musicians thinking they’re writing
something people want to hear, harmonies that are essentially hip
rhythm changes and using the same chords but in a different key but
going nowhere but round and round with the musicians playing cliché
after cliché. Wow man too much!

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