What I like at Jazz music

I have always admired Jazz guitar players, but I am not into Jazz. And I surely don’t like all kind of Jazz music, I love melodic one, not that modern-I-can’t-understand-it Jazz. I love the creativity that these guys show and the chromatic scale improvisations. I think this is what fascinates me the most: chromatic scales, because there is not much theory there. Instead there is much creativity, inspiration and feeling, the very heart of Jazz music.

For me, Jazz it is like an alien world, a world still not open to me but full of hidden poetry. Don’t yet consider me uneducated, please don’t! I have listened some (some is the keyword here) but indeed, not a lot. However, it is fascinating to me the way (inspired) Jazz musicians come up with the most beautiful chromatic phrases that always make sense…As George Benson said, “everything works in Jazz”. Right, but only if you know how to make it work!

Note: I embedded the following movie only for the first 10 seconds, I think, of Charlie Parker, not for the lesson itself. I find those liks just lovely. What do you think?

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