Jazz is also full of Mystery and Misery….
A colleague of mine from work, Jason Wilder, has been blogging here in Rochester since April 2004 at Mystery and Misery, which is devoted to underground and independent music, with reviews and MP3 downloads (legal and free) and podcasts that Jason prepares to highlight the music and bands. As he notes in a recent interview with the Insider here, his goal is to “introduce people to bands they otherwise would not have heard of . . . .” After the Insider article, Jason generously pointed out a few blogs that the Insider had missed, including mine. Although I’m a “jazz hound,” I think I’ve made it pretty clear that I like all kinds of music and the type of music Jason profiles never gets heard in the mainstream. While it’s not for everyone, the music found on Mystery and Misery is innovative and thus in the spirit of jazz (at least how I conceive of it).
