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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Just for the record, over the last fifteen years I've spent a lot more time listening to free jazz than to metal.
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Well... is the fusion of Jazz and Metal significant? I personally find that when you listen to more genres, and more obscure genres, you realize how big of a myth that 'genre' really is. I don't see how you can say nothing in Jazz is significant as almost everything that wants to distinguish or evolve from typical rock or metal(which really is just louder more distorted rock) tends to borrow from Jazz staples. I mean, prog for example, the form of music built entirely to significantly change rock/metal, owes just as much to jazz as it does metal.
Jazz is the most strongly accumulative genre around. Just if straight Jazz doesn't have any blatant mainstream figures it doesn't mean the evolutions simply in it's integrations in helping music evolve are not significant.