Obviously taking the piss out of jazz because that's all that it (jazz) deserves. Noise diarrhoea for pretentious assholes.
And another one takes a predicable enough nosedive.
Yes, that which you refer to as pretentious I refer to as genius.
That which Keith Woods refers to as gospel, you genuflect and lay down before.
Let me explain, kid: there are two music forms which follow similiar trajectories and have done since their inception. Oddly enough, it's jazz and punk rock. In the jazz scene, players play, writers write, and performers perform. If one member of a quartet decides to make his own record, he might not even use the guys in his own band. He might choose to deliberately NOT use them because another player may have a better sense or awareness of what the writer is looking/striving for.
Punk musicians also exchange players in the same way.
Where it really harmonizes is on the circuits: punk bands on tour usually travel with the bare essentials. Larger heavier instruments can be hired or borrowed rather than hauled. Same with accommodation, the punk band that played Helsinki last night stayed with punks on the local scene and used their gear too. Next month, when the Helsinki band hit say Berlin, the deal is the same: the host provides and the visitors do their thing.
The jazz circuits operate on the same basis: someone writes some new material, chooses his team, goes to work. The touring aspect may not even include the players who played on the record. Nor the gear they used. Hotels are expensive, travel insurance for priceless instruments, etc must be considered. If an artist asks me to play on the record but not on the tour/gigs, that's perfectly normal. He wants this sound/style on the recording, but these players/arrangers for the tour. Costs are kept to a minimum, expenses tightly reined in, and the artist has to be able to make a profit on the project, so CD sales and other merchandising is vital.
When Oasis went out on tour, all Liam brought was a bad attitude.
It didn't work out, so he got booted out and the tour cancelled.
He likely lost a pretty penny too - but the guy who booted him out lost out as well.
That's rock'n'roll -
not punk, and
definitely not jazz.
So once again, dear Jambo - you made a fool of yourself.
You know oh-so very, very little, my child.
It's all ahead of you, as my Nanny used to say.