John Coltrane ?

[Yesspaz]

I vote a resounding No. I have A Love Supreme. Great album. But a Jazz album. Not a prog album. Not art-rock, smart-rock, experimental rock, post-rock, fusion, jazz fusion, electronica, psych, Kraut, Canterbury, or any other progressive rock sub-genre. No pure jazz. I'm against it for the same ideology I'm against classical on AM. In case you are thinking I'm just a jazz-hater, I'm listening to Ornette Coleman's album "The Shape of Jazz to Come" as I write this.

There are many sub-genres of jazz. Just to name a few:
Bop, Hard Bop, Bebop, Acid, Free, Cool, Dixieland, Big Band, Swing, Jazz Fusion, Experimental, Trip-Hop, and many others. The only ones that fit a Prog-Rock idea (in my "educated" opinion) is jazz fusion, and SOME Trip-Hop (like Massive Attack) and SOME experimental jazz (like Medeski, Martin, and Wood), but even then I'd limit it to certain tracks.




If you think I've come off too strong or am over-reacting, then reply and debate with me. I live for this stuff (ok, not really). In regards to adding jazz to AM, I just want to "nip it in the bud" now. That's why this post is so strong.

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