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

lazland wrote:

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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.

Hi,

Or the 60,000 comment on Jethro Tull, or Yes.

The main difference for me, is that JMA seems to be more interested in the material itself ... here, folks seem more interested in the numbers game and the comments that the fans determine what is art ... whereas in the jazz world, the artists are given a lot more latitude, than the cookie cutter factory on PA proper ...

It is possible, that PA has gotten better about this over the years, but seeing the same threads yet again, is a bit weird ... and folks spending more time on 3/4/5 bands than the MUSIC itself ... that in itself is even weirder! Not sure you'll find that on JMA.

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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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

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

^ I will look into it.

Catcher10 wrote:

I need to re-start going there more, I joined it in 2011......need to spend more time there. Prog is boring...

I must say that I'm not very active there, anymore.

All I've done in recent years is posting my EOY lists. Embarrassed

A good forum attendance might've kept fueling my interest.

I'm not sure MMA is doing that much better re: forum.

I don't even have it in my bookmarks.

I still go there to check out discographies, when Discogs has me doubting (as opposed to doing the opposite)

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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 - 14 hours 11 minutes ago at 14:17

Steve Wyzard wrote:

With all the Holdsworth/McLaughlin/Ponty/ECM fans on this site, it's truly a mystery as to why more of them don't also visit JMA. I've only been able to keep up with the latest releases by visiting on a weekly basis.

It's because Rate Your Music has usurped just about every other database as a reliable comprehensive music site with more jazz artists and more ratings than anything even close to JMA.

Add to that the PA, MMA and JMA triumvirate are neglected and most of us experience technical glitches just trying to navigate them. If any of these sites survive into the 2030s i'd be shocked.

Edited by siLLy puPPy - 13 hours 31 minutes ago at 14:57

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

With all the Holdsworth/McLaughlin/Ponty/ECM fans on this site, it's truly a mystery as to why more of them don't also visit JMA. I've only been able to keep up with the latest releases by visiting on a weekly basis.

Easy Money wrote:

The jazz site is doing just fine. Our daily features on new albums pull in a lot of viewers. There is very little chit-chat on the forum, but that is typical of any jazz site. Reviews have been down a bit lately, but its the holidays, a lot of us have had better things to do.

Hi,

In the past I have posted in there some, in the threads. I'm not sure I have ever done an album review (for example) for that website, although I could easily do 5 Rypdal albums, at least 5 Garbarek albums and at least 10 Gismonti albums, at least 2 Vasconcellos albums, a few Weber albums ... in other words, a lot of ECM stuff, probably the place that I am most comfortable with. Some of the other "famous" jazz labels, are not as strong for me, although it's really hard to not appreciate Coltrane, or so many other folks from the late 50's and then 60's, and of course, Miles.

I have a review of the special on Miles Davis and will post it ... as soon as I get it ready (it's on my website).

One of the best features in the threads is that there are not many "newbies" that just talk about their favorite band. And it is really nice to actually read from folks that appreciate music, very differently from the pop/rock style of things. I was thinking that no one in there (at least when I was about) ever worried about a top ten, and probably thought it was ridiculous anyway!

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com

I find the jazz archives to be an excellent reference resource, tho I've never bothered to join the forum, but I'm not sure how frequently the site gets updated/maintained.

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