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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Correct. I'm a huge Waits fan. Don't really see too much jazz in his music though: care to point it out? I know he's been linked with the genre but I've heard nearly everything from him and I see little if any jazz. Am I deaf? You'll surely say so. But let me know.
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Seriously? I would say jazz is one of the dominant bits of his musical DNA. A lot of his songs are very jazzy or jazz-influenced, especially on the earlier albums. And basically all of the piano ballads he's recorded throughout his career are heavily jazz-influenced. Some of his songs, like this one, simply
are straight up jazz tunes:
Here's another very jazzy one:
Even something like this owes a lot to experimental jazz: