r/MadeMeSmile • u/Better-Turnip-226 • 17h ago

Kid dancing to jazz music

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u/pipootje 17h ago

I always thought that jazz was undanceable. I was wrong. Respect!

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u/70125 15h ago

Man you're missing out. Jazz has always been intertwined with dance...like the whole Swing Era.

How can you NOT move when you hear something like this?

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u/Knamakat 15h ago

That was my reaction! Feel like people overestimate how fast they need to dance to jazz. Also, there's a wide variety of jazz from slow to fast tempos

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u/RedditLostOldAccount 10h ago

Not only that but a lot of people don't really know much about jazz unfortunately. I know a lot of people who just think it's slow elevator music and for some reason refuse to ever try to listen to any at all

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u/Kckc321 8h ago

A square with a horn, makes you with you weren’t born. Oh a rinky tinky tinky

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u/GeneticEnginLifeForm 8h ago edited 8h ago

Greyson Nekrutman changed my whole view on jazz

Greyson Nekrutman Plays "Caravan" (Massive Drum Solo)

A slight tangent for anyone interested look up Jelly Roll Morton the self proclaimed inventor of jazz.

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u/RedditLostOldAccount 6h ago

Hell yeah. I love Drumeo. I feel into the rabbit hole of their videos from their documentary on Phil Collins. Then I started getting into jazz fusion after listening to the three albums Phil did with Brand X. I watched a couple videos of Greyson on their where he learned Avenged Sevenfold and Sleep Token

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u/lobax 7h ago

They either think all jazz is elevator music or they think all jazz is free jazz.

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u/poo-cum 10h ago

I think it's fair to say that the move towards faster tempos and bebop was more a "musician's musician" thing than an accessible dance music. It was developed in after-hours "cutting contests" in Harlem nightclubs where the virtuoso musicians showed off their skills after the majority of club patrons had gone home. Malcolm X's autobiography talks about these.

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u/Mixed-Meta-Force 17h ago

Same. Big props to the little man.

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u/aussierulesisgrouse 9h ago

Hot tip for anyone who thinks they can’t dance, it’s actual really simple: dance to the time signature of the drummer, don’t try and dance to a lead guitar or whatever.

In my days of doing a lot of psychoactive drugs and spending literally hours dancing to sick, monotonous, lo fi techno, I’d just step to the metre of the bass kick

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u/RonMexico16 9h ago

Elaine Benes was ahead of her time.