Jass

I was talking about jazz, which formerly was jass.  For obvious reasons when commercially trying to market jass, they realized that jazz could be a more appropriate term.  Some music historians feel the etymology of jazz is from the French chez, which means throne.  If we could travel back in time and talk with Fats Waller, I think he would tell us that his rhythmic feeling for jazz was looking through a peep hole and mimicking the humping motion of sexual intercourse.  That is one analogy.  When one looks closely at the field of music, all musics, there are so many crucial rhythms.  Most of them are unknown to the populace.  The beautiful thing is the best music, the best rhythms, and the most fulfilling music experiences come from the dance.  Once it was that way in America.  "Once Upon a Time in America."  We are so far from our roots, America is unrecognizable.  If one does discover the Time/Warner catalog sitting on shelves, protected from airplay, the soul of America would be right there.  Protected, preventing prosperity for those who created it.  I have a few of Time/Warner's collections sitting on my shelf.  Classic Country.  Disco.  R&B.  Gospel.  Soft Rock.  AM Classics.  This is important music defining America, and it is lost.  The average cost of a multiple CD collection is $150.00.  It was worth it, although I do not listen to them.  Also archived on my computers I have the Billboard Top 100 going back to the 1940's.  Any given year you can see and listen to what were the top 100 hits of that year.  This is indispensable information, and yet today it does not matter.  Possibly at the juncture Y2K, America morphed into a bastard creature.  We were afraid of 2012, and it came and went.  Strangely enough it is not over.  The premonitions for 2012 are happening now over time the way the earth was created.  The earth's demise won't happen in the blink of an eye.  It will begin with the electing of a troublesome president who threatens nuclear war.  It's happening.  The Age of Jass has cum and gone.