Post #143728 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 12:03 PM

On 2005-02-25 19:56, Kono wrote:
...you used the phrase rock'n'roll/free jazz. As a fan of both I hate them being paired together....

I used those two individual styles as metaphor for "modern music" vs. "Big Band music", and not to create any kind of connection between the two.
What I was trying to say was this:

The musicianship that is required for good Lounge/Exotica WAS the Status Quo until the 60s. When other radically new musical styles came along, other talents came into demand, and the craft withered. It was just like with the artisans that used to do all the amazing stucco work on buildings until the turn of the (last) century, and then modern architecture became the Status Quo and made their services obsolete. There were thousands of them, working for standard prices. Try to find them now. If you do, you can't pay for them. Their craft has died out.

So today in music, IF the musicianship IS there, like with Pink Martini, the musicians usually do not want to "limit" themselves to Lounge or Exotica (which WE do not see as limiting, of course). But that's why, in my opinion, Pink Martini is not "perfect" Lounge in the way we would prefer it.

I am not saying this judgementally, but just as an observation.

The previous post was a little cryptic, I hope this one brought my point across better.