Music:
Member Since: 08/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/slangjazz
Band Members: Brian Swartz - Trumpet with electronic effects, EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument); Andy Langham - Keyboards, Key Bass; Gerry Gibbs - Drums, Percussion.
Influences: Miles Davis, Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Return to Forever, Chick Corea, Cuong Vu, Kneebody, many more to come.
Sounds Like:
SLanG
(Swartz, Langham, Gibbs)
slang, noun, verb.
noun 1. words, phrases, or meanings that are new, flashy, and popular, usually for only a short time. Slang is often very vivid and expressive and is used in familiar talk between friends but is not accepted as good English when speaking or writing formal English. Slob and on the skids are slang.
Ex. The central characteristic of slang comes from the motive for its use: a desire for novelty, for vivid emphasis, for being in the know, up with the times or a little ahead ... Many slang words have short lives--skiddoo, twenty-three, vamoose, beat it, scram, hit the trail, take a powder, drag out, shag out--have succeeded each other almost within a generation ... The chief objections to slang, aside from its possible conspicuousness, are to its overuse, and to its use in place of more exact expressions (Porter G. Perrin). All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry (G. K. Chesterton).
2. the special talk or language of a particular class of people.
Ex. "Crib" often means "cheat" in students' slang. A "contract" is underworld slang for an "order to kill someone."
3. the special language of tramps or thieves, or of some sport or, sometimes, an occupation; cant.
Ex. "Slang" in the sense of the cant language of thieves appears in print certainly as early as the middle of the last century [1700's] (The Nation).
v.t. 1. to attack with abusive language; rail at; scold.
2. to address in slang.
v.i. 1. to use abusive language.
Ex. They slanged away at each other (Atlantic).
2. to use slang.
Now, just imagine all that as applied to playing improvised music. That's what we're up to.
Record Label: Unsigned
