Fine, TQ, I never said I was an expert and I also started my post by saying "Jazz aficionados may disagree." I was certainly right about that.
Rather than addressing the masses with "It seems to me that you people really need to learn a *lot* more about jazz.," why not explain the differences to us from the start? If we don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to address your disagreement.
It's difficult to learn when one is made to feel like idiot in their ignorance.
If I mis-attributed one genre out the 16+ albums Queen have issued, I can still sleep at night not knowing exactly what Jazz is.
The Fairy King · Member since
We Will Rock You = Rap/Hiphop
ole-the-first · Member since
The Fairy King wrote: We Will Rock You = Rap/Hiphop
======== Please don't use obscene words such as "rap", "hip-hop" and "Justin Bieber".
JacquesDaniels · Member since
The term "jazz" isn't very easy to explain what it exactly is, because it doesn't really mean much more than, say, "great sounding noise". The word originated, I believe, in Chicago or thereabouts in the 1910's as a slang word for the style of music that people started to develop. Wikipedia, I'm sure, will explain the matter more closely.
As for the Queen songs in a jazz genre, a lot of these have been pointed out already, but... I'd say "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" was kind of a Dixieland thing, omitting the characteristic polyphonic improvisation and sticking with a more traditional rock band arrangement. I wouldn't label "Lazing..." too near the jazz bunch, as it's more of a vaudeville type piece, thoroughly composed. "Seaside Rendezvous", same thing. But I think "Good Company" is the closest to a tradional Dixieland jazz Queen ever got. "My Melancholy Blues" gets into the standard jazz piano ballad area, while "Dreamers' Ball" gets closer to the doo-wop tradition. Queen's experimentation with jazz-based genres was dropped after that, unless you count "A Winter's Tale" as a jazz waltz, kind of in the same vein as "What A Wonderful World" (Thiele/Weiss) is a jazz song, because Louis Armstrong sang it. But it's definitely not psychedelic rock.
I'd also like to point out that progressive rock as a term is more about the way the songs progress (as in March of the Black Queen), rather than from which genres they are compiled of. If anything, "Rain Must Fall" could be called fusion rock, maybe derived from calypso or something. Also, jazz standard is not necessarily a ballad, but a song that has been taken into standard programme of a standard jazz band, which could be a ballad.
