Craig - thank you! With your help, I finally got an image to display. Huh - I thought you would have had to use the picture icon and paste the image url. I never would have thought to just copy the image and paste it into the message.
"I seem to feel more of a momentary sense of dislocation moving from baroque to jazz than from baroque to techno."
It's easy to see why that would be so when you consider how structured baroque music is. I cannot think of two kinds of music more different than baroque and jazz. L'Arpeggiata manages to impressively combine the very early baroque music of Monteverdi with modern jazz elements, though, in their album, Teatro D'Amore (http://www.amazon.com/Teatro-DAmore-Christina-Pluhar/dp/B001KYJA6K) featuring the jazz clarinettist, Gianluigi Trovesi. I do so love that album.
But I had an unforgettable experience the first time I listened to jazz because I tried it after about a year listening to no other kind of music except baroque. I was so deep into baroque when I tried jazz (never having listened to it before) that it gave me much much more than a momentary sense of dislocation! It was very unpleasant - as crazy as it sounds, the very disjointed non-melodious bass line coupled with the piercingly high sound of a horn that kept bouncing unpredictably above it left me with a feeling that my whole body had been invaded by some awful alien thing. To this day, I still cannot listen to any kind of avant-garte jazz. I did later learn that I really loved the old swing jazz, though.
(It was a best-of Art Pepper CD that I had first listened to.)
Haha, it's great that your description ends with the artist being Art Pepper, who is not exactly at the extremely dissonant end of things.
I recently listened to an album of some trio trying to to a jazz piano trio version of Bach. To my ear it did not really work, it sounded kind of Frankensteinish..
ETA, it does kind of fascinate me where genres touch. I think despite all of the above it was doing a lot of jazz piano trio listening that acclimated my ear to the piano and got me listening to Bach piano recordings.
@GP, you got me curious about what particular Art Pepper song I first listened to that affected me so unpleasantly. I went back and looked at the tracklist, and after verifying by listening to it on Youtube I figured out it was "Blues In" that gave me that awful experience. I can see now how the stark contrast in musical styles was greatly exacerbated by my prolonged exclusive playing of baroque music at the time.
Now that I listen to it today, it is not nearly so traumatic - although I still find there is something extremely visceral about that particular piece of music.
Bach and jazz, not so much. Now, Bach and bluegrass...!
Paquito D'Rivera has done some latin jazz/classical crossover bits that work pretty well. In performances he'll do a little Bach virtuoso piece that's kind of a showstopper.
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I've concluded it is sometimes difficult to copy an image from Amazon using IE11! But this worked OK using the image jpeg address
Still my favourite Stevie Wonder album
Couldn't resist getting this from the amazon $3.99 sale. Still hovering about a Kyuss album.
I might have been tempted at that price amc! Here it is £3.49, a bit above $5, not quite the bargain, but something to think about this afternoon...
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With thanks to Thom; for rec'ing originally and reminding me recently to pull it off the shelf.
Revisiting the Javasounds Indonesian Music collection; this one's Vol. 3: Tarawangsa Ritual Music. This whole thing is such a great set.
Grateful Dead - 1978-12-19