Well, at the very least the Japanese audiences pay attention to what you're doing up there and aren't talking/yelling above the band like in...other countries. Having played several tours over there I was never annoyed by their enthusiasm. At least they always clap on 2 & 4 :) Thanks for the great vid. Hank was THE man.
I heard John Coltrane playing to a mostly black audience in NY and they certainly weren't silent. They chatted a bit during numbers and would also bark their approval of particularly juicy licks. Ahhhh! Yeah!!!!! Aeah!!!!!!! It seemed perfectly appropriate.
@granthunt I don't see your reasoning for that. The whole point was to have fun and mess with the changes/tune. That's exactly what he did! And all 3 of them had their own style, and his was just... Fun!!
I prefer Hank Jones to Oscar Peterson who is just hard to listen to sometimes. Hank is smooth and enjoyable. Now if the audience would stop trying to join in😈.
Too bad the crowd is so happy-clappy. This performance is stellar. Jones sounds simultaneously brilliantly inventive and deeply rooted. He makes bebop sound dangerous again.
"The Blue Note" in Tokyo?? Okay. I know there was one in NY. The Japanese imitate our jazz culture so lovingly. Only the bathroom is probably clean in the Tokyo one.
Clapping is absolutely OK according to the context. He probably made a lot of jokes between the songs and the audience felt confortable about clapping. In addition, he seems to enjoy it!
@ImaniHekima @Jyazz21 It depends on the style. IMO, the mood of this calls for dancing and clapping etc., but more exploratory/atmospheric stuff should be listened to "contemplative silence".
It's not that I'm encouraging clapping, yet at least they're clapping on the 2 and 4. In Israel everybody (non-musicians) claps on the 1 and 3 - even in jazz shows!
Jazz is not classical, audience joining in is great, clapping after solos, yelling sometimes (eg WOW!). Makes a great recording if there is great playing (understatement here)
applause is food for entertainment. besides they cant keep up. wouldn't blame them either; the fucking back beat (love for sale). i think the Japanese go nuts over this, and again wouldn't blame them.
So why is the drummer bad? Time is everything and that drummer had it. Time is evidence in his solo, he was actually singing the tune in his head during his solo. That's why Hank comped a few hits. Any who Mr. Hank Jones is awesome!
N' why not? Lets be honest, jazz was created for the body to react to the soundwaves. The birth of the ''cool'' was the death of the jazz in my opinion. Victor Wooten explains it well in his interview with Reverb.
Artur Leppik exactly, the clapping is delineated from the Baptist Church and one of the cultivators of African American Slave music that transcended from church hymns to folk blues and southern country to eventually rags and minstrel music- all aggregates to the gestalt known as jazz. The music was a representation of a juxtaposition of enslavement and freedom-- this is a dancing music- even borrowing the rhythms of West Africa from the great slave trade into its DNA. Once you can’t dance to it, it becomes intellectualized and formulaic for academic consumption I’ll take Basie , Louis Armstrong or Louis Jordan any day over Pat Metheny
@@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 this is my uneducated guess, but mainly clapping in the birth of blues was because it was participating. You don't go to see Hank Jones to participate... They already have a drummer. Sometimes, it's better to just watch and enjoy... say yeah when you hear something good... give an ooh when you hear a cool line. That's just my opinion
Siempre he pensado que el público "jazzista" es sordo... absolutamente sordo y snob... porqué? Porque el jazz es solo para músicos y no todos. Algunos. el 15% no mas.
No, it's not. They can be enthusiastic silently. When the audience claps their hands, it ruins the sound. Plus, it's distracting for the musicians because they can rarely keep a beat. I came here to watch them play and listen to great music, not listen to somebody clapping.
