Another Andy Edwards video on Jazz

[CGR]

I am getting addicted to this fellow's ranting argumentative style. I disagree with a lot of what he says but I cannot stop watching it !!!

What do you think?

He seems to the YouTube equivalent of Marmite.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Youtube music critic

edit In 2021, Edwards started a YouTube channel discussing rock music, prog, jazz and jazz rock as well as aesthetic philosophy. He has had Narada Michael Walden, Matthew Tavares, Simon Phillips and Jason Marsalis on as guests.

I think he's as clueless (and gobby) about Philosophy as he is about jazz. In my one encounter will him he demanded to know what I thought about Kant's "categorical imperative", as if this was some kind of litmus test. Kant having played bass with one of the original prog rock bands, Daft Kant.

But he's learnt how to monetise his BS and in the modern world, that's entertainment. Apologies to Professor Paul Weller.

[eighthobstruction]

....yes yes yes....case in question : last week I spent a lot of time on Utube with a woman (and her friends and links to others) rooting about on the Thames foreshore - I dare say I added about 50p to Nicola's GPP....she served me a purpose, and I went on watching until I got fed up with the finding of yet another clay pipe or another piece of river /sea glass and sick of the phrase "Oh lovely"....Times of inertia have to be filled, and while it is still too cold to sit long in the garden going down a harmless internet rabbit hole is ....harmless.....not a Kant insight....


It is at these times of inertia that others find it neccessary to describe and categorise doors....I felt there was a slight amount of peril in said misplaced door, and knowing the characters involved I gave it chance and read the second episode to see where it might lead........(perhaps a second series with Keeley Hawes as prequel younger self)....

[Tenor Freak]

Just another attention-seeking ragebaiter. Zero s.

[Ian Thumwood]

I quite like Nahre Sol and Rick Beato, the latter being really informative. The current crop of jazz musicians are not very interesting and I don't think jazz has that many individual musicians on the scene. The musicianship has increased massively yet I find it really boring. I think alot of jazz fans are saying the same thing.

Not sure jazz has been 'Street 'since New Orleans yeti feel colleges are churnjng out a lot of identikit musicians. The individualism of jazz has gone since the late 1990s.

[Tenor Freak]

I don't consider Rick Beato or Adam Neely to be ragebaiters. Beato, for example, comes from a position of love for music in general (not just jazz) and can explain why. Just last night I watched Beato's video on the Stevie Wonder chestnuts "My Cherie Amour" and "I Wish" which he rightly praised as excellent songs and traced a line back from jazz and Bossa Nova.

But there's a fine line between channels that have informative content and the clickbaiters. The algo forces Youtubers to use certain things such as lists ("Twenty Jazz LPs You Must Listen To Before You Die"), outrageous thumbnails and video titles ("This Jazz Standard Has A Seriously WEIRD Structure!") to get eyeballs on their vids in the mass of material offered. This is why all of them beg viewers for likes and subcribes because the algorithm rewards them with increased exposure, hence more viewers, hence more income.

Andy Edwards is just one of many Youtubers who game the system. I tried watching one of his videos and switched off because I didn't think it was terribly informative. Next!