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Ricardo -> RE: modern vs traditional flamenco!! (Oct. 15 2015 11:41:49)
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ORIGINAL: DavRom
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... the unfair lable of "jazzy" is used to describe modern flamenco guitar to distinguish it form older traditional styles.
that's the sense I get, that just because "modern" flamenco guitarists have been stretching the harmonic palette their music is not pure flamenco or even flamenco at all
that's why i started the thread "what is flamenco today?"
There is this guy, now an old man, Manolo Sanlucar, he manages to deliver extremely "modern" sounding flamenco music that has exactly 0.0 to do with jazz harmony or theory, in some cases he just uses a basic two chord structure, no improvisation, but his melodic lines are very sophisticated and can be totally lost on aficionados of the old school. After all how to describe his playing other than "jazzy"? Next I point to a guy like Paco playing some jazz fusion standard with Mclaughlin like "Spain", and there he is using FLMENCO guitar specific chord voicings...so how is he even learning about jazz harmony?
In the end we can point to specifics falseta by falseta and notice that as we look toward modern flamenco we see how so much has changed, and as we look to the old guitarist by comparison, we notice how much is still the same.
Ricardo
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