ramble on Jazz

yes, there is an old lady trapped inside of this 22-year-old body who found Ella Fitzgerald, Engelbert Humperdinck and the much younger singer, Michael Buble are divine singers. my brother said my playlist is boring. my best cousin said so too. my friend erna, refused to listen me whine about this old stuff. but i am really into this old swing music that the generation of today thinks as the lamest.

to begin with, Jazz is an ageless music. it doesn't grow old and die, only the Jazz singers are aging and dead. it was my lecturer who had first drawn my attention of jazz when she introduced a song called 'lets call the whole thing off' sang by Ella Fitzgerald. the song was classic, cool enough that it raised the attention of the whole class as we learned about accent in linguistic class. the song talks of two different accents, English and America and what it tries to convey is that no matters how different the English of these two regions might sound they can still understand each other. 

and so i began searching and downloading the jazz songs. at first it was only for the sake of finding serenity in studying, i cannot focus when listening to some dum dam gaga bieber when it comes to study.  i don't even like them. then the music came naturally to me, calming the restless soul, sweetly humming me to sleep, enlightening the gloomy days by its soulful harmony. in a simple word i love it. 

there is a friend, who claimed that he missed to listen to acid jazz. i don't even know how the acid jazz sounded like, but i guess, jazz are pretty much the same. so i  commented his status, 'was it something like Ray Charles', and he kind of condemned me of how lame it is to be listening to this old blind man. i replied to him 'jazz is ageless'. how can you love Jazz without loving its roots. and oh, i was pretty mixed up, Ray Charles was pretty much R&B during his time. 

after reading through some webs, namely Wiki, i sort of able to distinguish what is Jazz and what is Blues, what is what. Norah Jones is not really the sub of Jazz, Ray Charles also. so the truly jazz singer in my playlist are Ella Fitzgerald, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frank Sinatra, Diana Krall and of course, Michael Buble. still, i think this is debatable. good music needs not to be categorized because for everyone's ear and heart there is only one folder of the good music, which you and i have are nothing identical.

after all, i am just an avid listener of jazz and i am such a loser in playing musical instruments. still my music selections are considerably peculiar because i am forever deadly in love with Alex Turner and Alex Kapranos.

sincerely 

from me who haven't had the talent.