Re: Stick Tune - Stella By Starlight
I think that sometimes a lot of jazzers will severely over-complicate the music they play for one reason or another. I know that I have been guilty on occasion of overplaying. It doesn't appeal to everybody to listen to that kind of overplay/overarrange.
Y'know, I think that the toughest things for drummers to play on, are like "slow ballads". Keeping a groove on a slow, open and airy ballad Without succumbing to the temptation to go Mike Portnoy on it is probably a challenge unto itself...
Harmonically, jazz can be ear-twisting. Especially as one gets into the improv aspect of the genre. There are some notes being superimposed over certain harmonies that the average listener simply will not like... And that's okay in my book!
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