What's Jazz?-石井明子

[ti:What's Jazz?] [ar:Akiko (菊地晶子)] [al:What’s Jazz?-STYLE-] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.43]What's Jazz? - Akiko (菊地晶子) [00:00.97]Written by：akiko [00:01.72] [00:08.38]What's jazz [00:08.98] [00:10.24]Originating in america [00:12.52] [00:14.37]An african and european mix [00:17.22] [00:18.43]But then all this is known to everyone [00:20.61] [00:21.68]No fun to hear all that you know [00:24.82]What's jazz [00:25.29] [00:26.78]You know of count basie john coltrane [00:29.28] [00:31.01]Louis armstrong and all those names [00:33.72] [00:34.89]You know they made the different styles we hear [00:38.08]The swing be bop and dixieland [00:40.47] [00:41.09]But is jazz a style [00:44.17] [00:45.29]Or just the rhythm played [00:48.26] [00:49.34]And will it still be jazz [00:52.37] [00:53.49]Without the improvising style [00:56.69]Is it an american thing [01:00.63] [01:01.55]A culture old and boring [01:04.25] [01:05.69]Does it have to be done [01:07.28]The way that they've played [01:08.75] [01:09.82]'Cause isn't jazz supposed to [01:12.25] [01:12.90]Be fun and free [01:14.04]You know [01:14.79] [01:16.12]I haven't studied to sing at school [01:18.88] [01:20.28]I don't know 'bout all the chords they use [01:23.29] [01:24.39]The music theory that they play is too [01:27.74]Confusing for my simple mind [01:30.88]You see [01:31.33] [01:32.76]Ella billie and anita taught me all I know [01:37.94]That's how I sing my jazz [01:39.89] [02:52.57]That's not jazz [02:54.82] [02:56.01]Or it's a provilege [02:58.22] [03:00.14]We've heard them many times [03:03.11] [03:04.28]But don't you see it's not logic [03:07.51]Miles davis is great to hear [03:11.54] [03:12.58]But try a different ear [03:15.58] [03:16.71]4hero jazzanova matthew herbert [03:19.32] [03:20.79]'Cause otherwise you're saying [03:23.14] [03:23.98]That jazz is dead [03:25.15]One thing [03:25.83] [03:27.11]Let me explain I do love the old [03:30.05] [03:31.25]But I'm living in the present now [03:34.20] [03:35.26]To me the music jazz is our spirit [03:37.82] [03:38.54]Like blues and soul and also rock [03:41.74]That's jazz [03:42.60] [03:43.70]That's why I sing as I sing today [03:46.43] [03:47.93]And I'll be singing all I feel that's jazz [03:50.86] [03:52.07]That's why I sing as I sing today [03:54.85] [03:56.23]And I'll be singing all I feel that's jazz