This might be the only time in my life that I have heard hip hop of any kind in Catalan. I am sure that hip hop in Catalan exists outside dubbed songs, but I have yet to run into it due to my dislike of cloud rap, emo rap, trap, or most modern hip hop genres. I tend to look for boom bap and/or jazz rap sounding albums. Though I also like a great deal of rap rock to this day, and it is not like I am adverse to what the purist call backpack hip hop. I do like an awful lot of conscious hip hop, but I feel the label is more lyrical than any specific production style.
I got advertised this station in Reddit, of all places. They have a good mix. I regret that there are not an awful lot of jazz for this thread, but that is due to how few jazz music videos are out there, that are not lives. I had posted some lives myself, but that is usually on the strength of the song. I am not arguing for visual being important for music, because I would argue many genres in the '80s and '90s were not valued / played on TV enough given they are not MTV / VH1 music video friendly, hence the lack of visibility to jazz artists that were not partly fusion and/or nu jazz. Most of the jazz I like past jazz rap, jazz-funk, nu jazz, and whatnot are trad artists. How do you showcase them in a music video that is not concert footage? Doing concert footage to me is like an AMV. You are taking something out of context. That is one of my pet peeves of the Spotify era, more and more people are being introduced to music, without going far and deep enough, with the album and artist they are from. Some artists canât and donât work as âsingles.â You canât really get Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock (his pre '80 work), Pharoah Sanders, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Eric Dolphy, Alice Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Ryo Fukui, Vince Guaraldi (his non Peanuts work), Sun Ra, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Casiopea, Tom Waits (his pre '80s work, Cannonball Adderley, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, etc. listening to their most famous pieces taken out of historical context. Jazz has history, it teaches you as much as it has other people. J a z z G r o o v e
thatâs exactly how I got into every single one of those artists. something had to spark my desire to care about the history. it doesnât matter how people listen to music there is no pure correct way to do it. music is the one universal thing that links everyone together and listening without barriers to entry is much better than not listening at all out of some made up fear of doing it wrong. concert footage rules, especially if I wasnt even alive to see it. like yes you lose a little bit in translation but anyone whoâs ever seen live music understands that and can still get enjoyment from a concert video
