Jazz or Classical

That's subjective.

The melody could be out of this world, and incredibly expressive.

And the improv. might sound silly and disjointed.

Ya never know...

i love classical and have a hard time getting into jazz.  There's some jazz i like, but classical wins out by a lot for me.  Brucker's Symphony 8 is better than any prog epic i've heard

Shakespeare wrote: First of all, this is not a prog poll. King Crimson776 wrote: I think that there are some classical pieces that beat any jazz, but overall jazz is better (like a random jazz song is better than a random classical piece more often) What is that supposed to mean? If you picked a classical song out of a hat, it would be worse than any jazz song you picked out of a hat more often? How can you follow that as a rule? And that is 100% subjective.

Jazz and Classical are related to prog, and Prog Related is a bonified sub-genre on this website, so the poll is fine here, get the stick outta yer ass.

And that a random jazz piece is usually better than a classical piece is my opinion, I don't mean it as something that should be understood, I was just clarifying that I think jazz is better overall. Don't be so literal, aight?

Edited by King Crimson776 - November 28 2007 at 19:39

Classical and Jazz were both two of my first loves in music, and currently I'm mainly a classical musician but I still venture into jazz occasionally and would like to play more of it.
That being said, I voted classical. I prefer mainly modern, 20th century and romantic classical. The energy of many pieces that involve several hundred people playing is difficult to match with 3-10 jazz musicians, and I prefer the concrete sense of direction and concept that classical music displays for the listener. I still like jazz very much, but Coltrane and Davis haven't impacted me as much as Shostakovitch and Vaughan Williams have. 

Love em both but classical music is the highest form of human expression.

I much prefer jazz influenced music like early MAGMA and ZAO to the classical flavour.

i went with jazz, but i, too, love classical

Jazz probably, since it's closer to my taste in prog.

ProgBagel wrote: Jazz Fusion...I don't like jazz. In relation to the poll...I choose jazz because there was freedom and experimentation in it. Classical was too rigid

I'm going to have to go with Jazz. It's not that I don't like classical, I just find that in relation, I listen to Jazz more.

Now if it was Jazz/Fusion Vs. Symphonic Prog, that would be a different (and harder) story.