Jazz Music Archives needs some more attention! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Easy Money wrote:

^ I will look into it.

same user name Catcher10

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

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

I don't know of any jazz sites that have any chatter. AllAboutJazz closed their forum about 7 years ago. Any other site I know of doesn't even have a discussion board. 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.

Edited by Easy Money - December 10 2024 at 18:38

In my most active (and now fading) JMA era from August 2023 to recent times, I reviewed albums there more than here. Probably 90% of them for previously unreviewed artists, which actually was motivating me in the first place. The fact that so much of the JMA artists are still unreviewed is rather sad, isn't it?

Definitely JMA is too inactive. I don't mind about the lack of conversation in the JMA forum, but I've been wondering why the new artists adding process has radically slowed down. That is, new suggestions are piling up. It's frustrating for those making the suggestions (also I am waiting for a few artists to be added, having received jazz CD's to-be-reviewed), and very likely that turns potential reviewers off.

Edited by Matti - December 12 2024 at 23:56

Matti wrote:

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Definitely JMA is too inactive. I don't mind about the lack of conversation in the JMA forum, but I've been wondering why the new artists adding process has radically slowed down. That is, new suggestions are piling up.

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Hi,

I'm guessing that JMA does not have "Admins" or folks that are exclusive to jazz, and is probably using the same folks as PA ... but that's a guess.

The process, for JMA, would need to be more centered on the knowledge and understanding of the music, than simply a cookie cutter and idea fitting into something or other, or ... just another growl, so it can be considered "progrock" ... and added to PA. However, this is a guess of mine.

I would probably be at JMA a lot more (that would make some folks happy here on PA!!!), if the folks in "charge" were more visible, and less hidden, or possibly non-existent ... but that is not my call ...

I would like to see JMA do better, but jazz is not as much about the number one as pop music is, and PA handles it as such, I like to joke as every now and then ... for it to be "music" it needs to be free from its chains and definitions, and that's illegal on PA, so to speak, on top of the fact that it won't get listed on anyone's top this or that.

But, I can not say that I am not a "jazz" listener, since I have been there since Miles, and so much of the ECM material ... though I have never exactly been a Blue Note person. Always loved the free form expressions and the additions of more foreign folks to it, as opposed to the factory of the same thing in the prog/progressive top lists. I find it scary that we take an Italian band, and it sounds exactly like 10 others already listed, and they are American or English ... that just shows how local cultures are falling apart, because of the internet that considers one thing great and the rest, just poopoo! You're not likely, I don't think, to find someone trashing music that bad with so many trolls on JMA ... unlike PA.

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moshkito wrote:

I find it scary that we take an Italian band, and it sounds exactly like 10 others already listed, and they are American or English ... that just shows how local cultures are falling apart, because of the internet that considers one thing great and the rest, just poopoo!

Now regardless of Jazz, Prog or whatever human expression, this is a discssuion worth having. In the early 2000's the internet felt like a godsend to me (and many like myself). I suppose I went online searching for some additional music, albums or info about Univers Zero, Samla Mammas Manna or some other band I had just heard for the first time - thanks to a flatmate with eclectic tastes. 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. I was part of both the discovery, rediscovery and ressurection of progressive music made in Italy, France, Sweden, Japan, Quebec (I know, Canada), Brazil, Germany etc... 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. It's like everyone became a professional, a living encyclopedia... and gone was our wide eyed innocense? I'm rambling, I know. And this should probably be a thread on it's own.

lastly: Some of my relative disinterest in "modern prog" is that IN GENERAL (and not always), I often feel that there's less distinct (local/regional) identity in the music made post internet era. I even feel there's a recipe for creating "avant-garde". Again, there's always exceptions. Everyone should be free to do what they love, but I can't pretend to be exited about it when I'm not.