Tonight at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival I went to see Joshua Redman play solo at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Rockefeller Chapel, full house.
He has decent technique.
Joshua Redman, just him and a tenor.
But even with a well-trained ear, I couldn’t appreciate the chords, and the melodies felt clueless to me. Sometimes I couldn’t tell whether a note was intentional or a mistake, though often I could tell it was a mistake.
I think I just don’t like jazz’s spirit.