How much of your music listening is classical?

[Solitary Wanderer]

Hey, Chris, welcome back!  Nice to see your avatar around these parts. 

--Bruce

Thanks for the welcome Bruce 

[marvinbrown]

  The answer should have been 100% and if it were all up to me it would been be 100% Classical all the way. But when you are surrounded by so very few classical music fans and in a relationship with someone who is a non-classical music fan you can not help but be subjected to the type of music that others in your life listen to. My girlfriend likes U2, Queen, Sting & the Police and Bob Marley and I marvinbrown go along for the ride...... so my answer is 95%......

  marvin

[Bulldog]

  The answer should have been 100% and if it were all up to me it would been be 100% Classical all the way. But when you are surrounded by so very few classical music fans and in a relationship with someone who is a non-classical music fan you can not help but be subjected to the type of music that others in your life listen to. My girlfriend likes U2, Queen, Sting & the Police and Bob Marley and I marvinbrown go along for the ride...... so my answer is 95%......

  marvin

Your girlfriend has very good taste.  Be glad that her favorites are not Spears, Gaga, etc.  That would be a ride you could well find unacceptable.

[Xenophanes]

90%. I was going to estimate less because of the frequent visits of the 1 year old granddaughter. However, it occurs to me that a lot of the music on her videos is from classical sources and so are some of the lullaby stuff on CDs.

[Coopmv]

close to 100% ...

[Philoctetes]

Your girlfriend has very good taste.  Be glad that her favorites are not Spears, Gaga, etc.  That would be a ride you could well find unacceptable.

Not to pick, but both Spears and Gaga have some really enjoyable songs.

[Bulldog]

Not to pick, but both Spears and Gaga have some really enjoyable songs.

I'll take your word for it.

[Philoctetes]

I'll take your word for it.

As long as you're taking it and not shining me on.

[Mirror Image]

I would say lately just within the past two weeks it has been 95%, but this week looks like another 100%. Classical music takes most of my listening time, while I sometimes take a break from it and listen to jazz or rock.

[escher]

I would say lately just within the past two weeks it has been 95%, but this week looks like another 100%. Classical music takes most of my listening time, while I sometimes take a break from it and listen to jazz or rock.

i've read that you listen also to jazz, can i ask you what are your favorite musicians (and jazz composers also)?

[Mirror Image]

i've read that you listen also to jazz, can i ask you what are your favorite musicians (and jazz composers also)?

My favorite jazz musicians? I listen to a lot of jazz mainly from the late 40s to early 60s. Basically, I like a lot of bebop and big band: Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey, Sonny Clark, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Coltrane, Bud Powell, Shelly Manne, Clifford Brown, Bobby Hutchinson, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, etc., but I also like some modern jazz like Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Ben Monder, John Abercrombie, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Terje Rypdal, Maria Schneider, Eberhard Weber, Paul Motian, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Zorn, among others.

[Philoctetes]

i've read that you listen also to jazz, can i ask you what are your favorite musicians (and jazz composers also)?

Coltrane, Monk, Dolphy, Mingus, Zorn...

[jowcol]

i've read that you listen also to jazz, can i ask you what are your favorite musicians (and jazz composers also)?

I'll toss out a few albums.

Miles Davis,For Jazz/classical crossover , ketches of Spain is a great place to start.   For quintessential cool, Kind of Blue is an important one to check out.  It's been hailed as one of the greatest jazz albums of all time-- I don't know about that, but it's in my top 10 or 20.

John Coltrane:  The sound of the classic quartet from 60-64 is one of the great achievements of the last century.  I'd consider starting with Africa-Brass, My Favorite Things, or Ole.   The Live at the Village Vanguard (original, NOT the 66 version) has a song called Spiritual that hooked me on Coltrane.

Mingus:  He did a great job of mixing composed and improvised sections  My fave is the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, but Mingus Ah Um and Picanthropus Erectus are great.

Duke Ellington:  The man was busy recording for so long, it may be hard to start.  I found his late "world influenced" music really enjoyable-- his Far East Suite and Afro Eurasian Eclipse.  You can't do wrong by starting with a "best of" -- some really innovative writing and arranging.  But it always swings.

There's a LOT more-- most of my suggestions came from the same ten year period.

[escher]

I'll toss out a few albums.

Miles Davis,For Jazz/classical crossover , ketches of Spain is a great place to start.   For quintessential cool, Kind of Blue is an important one to check out.  It's been hailed as one of the greatest jazz albums of all time-- I don't know about that, but it's in my top 10 or 20.

John Coltrane:  The sound of the classic quartet from 60-64 is one of the great achievements of the last century.  I'd consider starting with Africa-Brass, My Favorite Things, or Ole.   The Live at the Village Vanguard (original, NOT the 66 version) has a song called Spiritual that hooked me on Coltrane.

Mingus:  He did a great job of mixing composed and improvised sections  My fave is the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, but Mingus Ah Um and Picanthropus Erectus are great.

Duke Ellington:  The man was busy recording for so long, it may be hard to start.  I found his late "world influenced" music really enjoyable-- his Far East Suite and Afro Eurasian Eclipse.  You can't do wrong by starting with a "best of" -- some really innovative writing and arranging.  But it always swings.

There's a LOT more-- most of my suggestions came from the same ten year period.

i wasn't looking for suggestions, it was just curiosity. As i have wrote yet, i've listened a lot of jazz but few classical music, at least in comparison, so i was curious to see the point of view of persons that listen mainly classical and their preferences when they listen to jazz. 

[starrynight]

I listened to quite a fair bit of Jazz, yesteryear.  Never interested me one bit.

The so called 'best', Kind of Blue was 7 or 8 musicians jamming away, and lo and behold its a classic.  IMHO it is nothing more than a laborious slugfest, and a cd for Jazz officionados to hold onto as their Grail.

Well some people don't hold it to be their 'Grail'.  The problem I suppose for popular music is that there can be quite alot of hype built up around some things while there are lesser known things out there that could actually be much more enjoyed by many than some of these hyped records.  Popular music is a much bigger area and takes alot more exploration than some people may have the time for.

[Daverz]

At least 99%.   My interest in exploring new pop music petered out around 1990, toward the end of my 20s.  It just didn't seem worth the effort for so little gain.  There wasn't much new under the sun, and what was new then was not appealing to me (grunge, hip hop).  Perhaps it wasn't created to appeal to me.

I do occaisonally listen to Jazz, but I still find even after much effort that Jazz does not move me the way other music does.

The last "pop" record I listened to was Captain Beefheart's Ice Cream for Crow because I became interested in his music after he died.  A lot of fun, I thought.

[starrynight]

At least 99%.   My interest in exploring new pop music petered out around 1990, toward the end of my 20s.  It just didn't seem worth the effort for so little gain. 

My interest in new pop music petered out around 1985 when I was around 15.  For a few years I virtually only listened to classical music.  But from around 94 onwards I started to listen to pop music from the past, starting off with classic albums and later songwriters.  In the last few months I've even tried to explore more modern popular music from the last 10 years or so, and there is actually some good music beyond some of the hyped stuff (which is normally very boring).

[OzRadio]

About the only time I don't listen to classic now is traveling in the car with the kids. Can't hear the music well enough to make it worthwhile.

[Mirror Image]

I listened to quite a fair bit of Jazz, yesteryear.  Never interested me one bit.

The so called 'best', Kind of Blue was 7 or 8 musicians jamming away, and lo and behold its a classic.  IMHO it is nothing more than a laborious slugfest, and a cd for Jazz officionados to hold onto as their Grail.

Biggest waste of money ever spent, although I had it on sacd and did double up, when selling to some other gullable mug

This one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read. You think Kind of Blue is a slugfest or jam session? The first problem is you're not going at jazz from the right perspective. You think jazz is about jamming, which is actually wrong, it's about soulful transcendence. It's about getting beyond yourself for a change and letting go. The second problem you exhibited in your comment is that Kind of Blue is a jazz fan's "holy grail." This is the wrong attitude to have. While this recording is a milestone recording, it's not the only jazz recording to make waves. According to drummer Jimmy Cobb, he viewed it as just another Miles Davis recording. After these musicians cut this record, its all in the hands of the listeners after this, much like when a classical composer writes a piece of music for musicians to perform, it is very much out of the composer's hands after this and left up to different interpretations, not only from a conductor/orchestra/musicians, but the listener as well.

Anyway, you can debase jazz all you want to, because you certainly seem like you have no intentions of understanding the music. Ignorance is bliss for some listeners I suppose.

[karlhenning]

Gosh, MI, Tony wrote that three years ago ; )