Duke Ellington, a great jazz composer who made Cotton Club famous overseas, was also a bandleader who often quarreled with him and accompanied him all his life. When he was very old, he was asked what jazz was, and he only answered one word: dream. The imagination of the emerging petty bourgeoisie is very limited, and their musical association will not go beyond the scope delineated by Haruki Murakami. The Japanese who reconciled jazz temperament with tenderness and consideration made only one contribution to music. He created a new genre for jazz-"soft jazz". With the knowledge and cultivation of petty bourgeoisie, let the precipitated things float, and then begin to be charming, lyrical and sensitive.
Shanghai has been named as a petty bourgeoisie city by cultural travelers from all over the country, and an inner passion and tension has evolved into a fleeting intoxication. Shanghai culture has always been only three points drunk, seven points posing, glancing at the same moving eyes. Zhang Ailing's sophisticated and modern life color appears in petty bourgeoisie's fashion notebook, which is a pervert who cares about details. Pay attention to the attitude of petty bourgeoisie towards life, and you can find the sensitivity and publicity of those details. Jazz is very detailed, and things with details are easy to make people fantasize. When life has never been taken seriously by petty bourgeoisie, the ostentation and extravagance of trivial matters and the intoxicated estrus of money make them begin to imagine life. Even if this life is so beautiful that the pores have shrunk into a skin and a few elegant bones. The role of jazz naturally has an intoxicating effect, but once it touches the soul, this effect can be understood as moderate crossing.
The jazz palace of the petty bourgeoisie often ends in Miles Davis, and Miles Davis was before Fu Xin. Chet baker, ben Webster, Lester Young, Ella Jane Fitzgerald, Half ECM, and Billy Holliday who took her painful history as a pity. They don't care about the oppression and liberation of Blackadder in the early years, because suffering is a matter of generations in the last century; They also don't pay attention to John Coltrane's ideal of drug rehabilitation, because the phrases of those addicted musicians are their fashion-addicted life; They don't understand the courage that Miles Davis needed all his life, because enduring torture has nothing to do with seeking happiness and mood. This is why fashionable people prefer to call their jazz brothers and sisters-Bruce, and even confuse jazz with Bruce. Blue mood, advanced flirting, self-flirting.
Chet baker is the most vulnerable person in jazz and the popular lover of the petty bourgeoisie, but his final choice of life is vertical. The decadent night in Stockholm, which belongs to Baker, is not as clean as the parabola of petty bourgeoisie's life, and the mirror of sadness in his later years always fails to show Baker himself clearly. Jazz Bossa Nova is a petty bourgeoisie party dance music. Stan Getz and his Brazilian friends and couples originally only grasped the instantaneous beauty, which originally belonged to the healthy and sunny beach of Infanma. The love songs of Billie Holiday, a black beauty, are the raw materials for petty bourgeoisie to stir up emotions in the air. However, as a woman, Billie has tasted cruelty and infidelity, and as an artist, she has resisted the insults of foreign petty bourgeoisie. However, this jazz life from intense to carefree, from poverty to glory, has been innocently obliterated, and what has been obliterated is a poor sense of superiority. I know that the petty bourgeoisie would rather like Bill Evans than the onion monk. They don't like Monk's strange beauty. They like the kind of teasing that makes people soft, the improvisation of jazz is heard by them, and the games that attract men and women are heard. Jazz's entertainment from the red light district is only the interesting part. Nicknames such as "Duke" and "Earl" were popular in the early Blackadder, and they had the hope of not being jealous of powerful people. Although they sometimes splurge, they also extend their lives back to a professional life avoidance.
Decadence is a heavy landscape of life, and its bottom line is injury. Pseudo-petty bourgeoisie will not put its fate in hopeless air and let the cold wind blow away pride and loss. The lonely culture of the twentieth century is worth distinguishing. Anything used for appreciation can be called arty. Their so-called decadence touches the skin but not the bones or even the soul. Miles Davis's most valuable record is Bitchs Brew and several subsequent scenes, but in the eyes of petty bourgeoisie, Davis is addicted to rock and roll, Fussion is of course true, and Freedom Jazz, Chicago Second Community and Attic Jazz are definitely more deviant.
In their view, Sun Ra is a devil who wants to get close to space. Archie Shep fought for black rights for Martin. road
Germany is regarded as a dark and chaotic world, and Cecil Taylor is at best an annoying dog jumping on the piano. Therefore, the petty bourgeoisie makes jazz history thin and transparent, so that they can be fascinated at night.
Petty bourgeoisie will regard fierce things as extreme and avoid them. In fact, they are the most partial eclipse, and their taste is unbearable. Petty bourgeoisie may do more harm to itself, because they mix the colorful world into one color, so let's call it blue for the time being. Unreasonable people will think that they have imagination and the ability to look up. After all, the pure sky is also blue. Probably no one will think that the petty bourgeoisie is a civilian vassal of totalitarianism and will rob the spiritual paradise in front of the poor with the logic of enjoying first.
Petty bourgeoisie also has elites, but these elites who make up the jazz map did not distinguish the difference between minority culture and stingy culture when enclosing the land. The essence of stingy culture is to breathe only by superiority. Jazz is a very complicated music and culture, but if there is a sense of superiority, it is also imposed. The rambling part of jazz must be related to the temperament of the performer, and the authenticity and frankness are also obvious. The jazz understood by petty bourgeoisie is obviously divorced from truth and frankness. The same thing you feel with your heart becomes a taste with your mouth, and it will change a lot anyway.
Jazz came with passion before white people joined, and this kind of music was transferred from the elegance of western white people to the afternoon similar to Debussy style. This kind of gentle and non-gentle confrontation originated from the memory or retrogression to monotonous emotions.
The mood of jazz is ever-changing because of its improvisation, so the vitality of jazz can spread to Chinese mainland in one hundred years. Culture has always been in confrontation, and new elements will appear. In the past 100 years, jazz itself has been annexing people or absorbing others. I don't want to exaggerate here. The noise revolution of jazz should be attributed to a culture of resistance, which has no appreciation value for people who are far from life itself.
When the old jazz in Peace Hotel became a landscape in Shanghai and even China, the middle-aged jazz or young jazz attached to Shanghai nightlife also rose quietly. If the taste of the players of the old jazz is just in line with the swing fashion of their youth, then the middle-aged jazz or the young jazz is out of date, although it is not a wonderful thing to keep up with the times. The decline of petty bourgeoisie is nothing new. You can imagine how conservative they will be when they are old. The old jazz band met today's radical jazz scene and left in less than five minutes, while the petty bourgeoisie sat down and endured the impact of rhythm in the name of loving jazz. Fake things always show attitude externally, not internally. Perhaps some views are too biased, but as long as someone puts jazz and coffee together today, it will make people feel that there will definitely be another lyric rape there.
Manfred Eicher, a German, originally launched ECM brand in order to explore a cool environment of harmony between Yin and Yang in a noisy world. However, some orientalist meditations were drawn by petty bourgeoisie, leaving only a few pale melodies. It's terrible to package the vulgar things beautifully, and it's also terrible to attribute everything you hear to your mood. No one opposes jazz as an accompaniment in a certain period of life, and no one opposes the choice of jazz appreciation. However, it is a bit of conventional wishful thinking to label jazz as music that changes people's lives.
Only when there is depravity can there be sublimation, only when there is repression can there be catharsis, and only when there is ugliness can there be beauty. When jazz is calm and excited for a while, a strange mixture is born. Jazz and rock music played the same and different roles in popular culture in the 20th century. The difference between the two is that rock is popular, while jazz relies on an unpopular route to enhance its popularity. Petty bourgeoisie took advantage of this.