Jazz Music Archives needs some more attention!

I have known plenty of guys very into jazz who like to talk about music, but that was in person. I don't know that jazz appreciators are that different from classical appreciators, rock appreciators, art music generally appreciators, or those like me who enjoy all of the above. I am more of a forum person (I don't like getting together with people in person much now so do this instead and have my nuclear family anyway) so JMA probably would not suit me. Lots of hardcore music appreciators into many styles of music who take music very seriously. I don't like music snobs whatever the style of music, and prefer those who can have fun, display some warmth and empathy, and joke around.

As for the internet and music, it did open up worlds of music to me and I continue to discover new-to-me music from all over, develop new passions, and explore different music. I do have my music grooves that I am currently most into, and actually I'm not someone who wants to listen to music every day. I'd day over the past year, things like Sufjan Stevens, Weyes Blood, Lingua Ignota, Boards of Canada, Fishmans et cetera have been floating my boat more than the vast majority of music that gets talked about much in the Prog forums.

What I lost is actually spending time with people listening to music as I became less sociable with people IRL after getting involved with the internet. I used to love to get together with friends and play albums and have this kind of shared experience and joy that I have not experienced online. I miss that and have hope to replicate that here, but this is different. It's different when you can see other people's expressions, comment and listen together in real-time, and be together. I used to be much more sociable. Now I keep putting off people who want to get together since I still have many people who consider me to be a friend (which may seem surprising), and want to hang out, but I'm not a good friend. I do miss having friends physically expose me to music, sharing the listening experience, the joy I used to have of record shops, discovering something new that I liked was more of an event before as I can discover things so easily now with a little typing, a touch of the finger or the click of a mouse.

As for PA, I think there's still plenty of variety and wonderful music being talked about that one might not know.   I think one just has to pay more attention to a wider variety of posts at PA. And with bandcamp and youtube, it is so easy to check out new music (at least if one has a decent internet service/ connection -- I have fibre optic). And one always make topics to expose more people to different music. If the majority only talk about a handful of bands, that's fine, there's still space and people here to talk about more niche music. I'd rather focus on what I like about this site and the posts I like and interest me than what I don't.

Saperlipopette! wrote: ... this is a discussion worth having. In the early 2000's the internet felt like a godsend to me (and many like myself).  ... And man did I fall down one rabbit hole after the other. I stumbled over a whole planet of sounds and "local scenes in every corner of the world" that I had virtually no prior knowledge about. ...  And you know what; a huge part of the attraction was that most of the music felt rooted in local musical traditions, but pushing those traditions forward, creating something that was new. New to me, at least. ... Point being, the internet opened up the world. It really did. We gained something - or rather a lot, but we also lost something. I don't know exactly what.  ...  and gone was our wide eyed innocence? ...

Easy Money wrote:   ... Jazz sites tend to focus on new albums and recently released archival albums. That's fine with me, I rarely participate in the discussions at PA either, its just not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for music I haven't heard yet, especially new music.

lazland wrote: ... Certainly, this would be of far more interest than the 60,000th review of Selling England. Such a feature would restore much of the interest for our reviewing collabs in the wider progressive music world, artists especially.

Catcher10 wrote: Easy Money wrote: ^ I will look into it. same user name Catcher10

I send you the instructions by PM, hope it will help

I go there about once a week to research stuff. Good site, could use more forum chatter

^ I will look into it.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: ^It's because there is no interaction of forum members. Great site but a graveyard.

Not a graveyard at all, JMA has more artists than PA and almost twice as many albums, all of this even though PA had an almost 10 year head start. There is not much chit chat on the forum because that is typical of jazz sites. You won't find a jazz site with much conversation anywhere. Jazz fans are mostly into the music. If you like jazz music, JMA posts new album features every day, check it out:
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31242&PID=152476&SID=8c39785e7z31z6ae6343e42bcb87b5894907407&title=jazz-albums-for-2024#152476

Edited by Easy Money - December 10 2024 at 14:17

Edited by siLLy puPPy - December 10 2024 at 14:57