Jazz explained by Yogi Berra

Interviewer: Can you explain Jazz?
 
Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all Jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.
 
Interviewer: I don't understand.
 
Yogi: Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
 
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
 
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.
 
Interviewer: Are there any great Jazz players alive today?
 
Yogi: No. All the great Jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.
 
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
 
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In Jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be Jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.
 
Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
 
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand Jazz that well.

wtf ?..... testing... I have written a response twice yet It's not here

I couldn't have said it better myself!
 

I love jazz 
 
 
 
and Becan

Jazz, it's horse of a different story.

Who would have thought that this character knew so much about jazz!?

Everything made more sense when Yogi 'splained it.

TheMaartian

I want that as a poster to hang on my wall. Brubeck was my hero at age 11. I'd just been kicked out of piano class because I wouldn't follow the dots. No future in music, my teacher told my mom. You're wasting your money, she said.

I went to college for 5 years to study jazz when I could have just moved closer to Yogi BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
P.S. I Am so glad I understand jazz now. so glad 

TheMaartian

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TheMaartian

I want that as a poster to hang on my wall. Brubeck was my hero at age 11. I'd just been kicked out of piano class because I wouldn't follow the dots. No future in music, my teacher told my mom. You're wasting your money, she said.

I "only" have 30 of his albums. 

Got me beat.  I only have 19 (all in one box set - lol).
 
I still can't believe that Take Five is from the 50's!