7/4

time for new keyboard clem.

I'm tempted, I should buy it.

This is how it's done:

Really? I always thought it was funny. (rimm shot) over used at least...

not Jazz, but New Music: Professor Heebie McJeebie

Sorry -- I meant "... when Ornette said that Trane was 'lost to sequences''... etc. well yeah.

Holy shit...

I'd like to hear that. Didn't Winton do a Dixieland Ornette recently? I would like to hear that someday.

Personally, Zorn's music makes ME want to put on a top hat and talking stick and trip the light fantastic also!

Yep. I think he's funny, but I've only seen him a few times. The Zorn bit cracked me up, I've seen him (Zorn) around a bit in town, he opened a door for me once. I had my arms full.

I'd also like an answer to that question.

Strangely enough, I was thinking about Miles and Motian this morning and how nice it would be.

Interesting concept today of all days.

All that Hindustani non-classical rocks. I love it.

I thought someone did, that Colbert was riot!

Amen. Birthday brodcast on WKCR until 12 pm esdt, then there's ball game. When that's over, the birthday broadcast resumes until 12 am. This is a major holiday!

I heard about this earlier today. Heart problems. He must be the first Crimson member to die. RIP.

Scott has had very little effect on my life, I'm not really familiar with his writing. My Jazz tastes were formed by WKCR, their birthday broadcasts and the Princeton Record Exchange. Downtown Music Gallery helped too. But I ain't gonna hold that against SY. Whatever...

Sometimes I wonder if it isn't just a ballooned chicken and egg argument--that is, that people won't listen to X because X doesn't get exposure OR that X won't get exposure because people won't listen to or fail to gravitate toward X. Agreed on the point above, as with jazzypaul's sentiments (etc.), but it's hard to lay the blame on any particular factor when the whole equation is so ingrained. I think it's precisely because everyone here comes across as correct that it's so difficult to dissect this question into the trouble components--George W. Bush world: yes, but it's also difficult not to listen to Ben Watson's Adorno rantings sometimes. This is also a symptom of the culture war, which has been raging on for ages. High art, low art and so on.

Same here.

That said, how would you teach it? I'm no teacher and have no kids, but here's some things to thing about: A mandatory music appreciation course at least every year. Take 'em through different styles and around the world. Maybe twice a month for grade school and one course a year for high school. This could also take form as live demonstrations once a month. Get the parents interested, invite them too. When I was in second or third grade, very early in school, they showed us a demonstration film of all the instruments in the orchestra. And right after the film, they asked us what instruments we were interested in playing. I chose the oboe and they talked me into the clarinet. Get them while they're young! I took lessons at school until I started private lessons on the piano, that's another story. But I'll add that when we moved back to NJ from Ohio, they had the whole class playing these horrible metal flutes. I really hated that, but it could have started some kids down a more sophisticated musical path. I perform sometimes with a dance company. One of the dancers (English) said something about having to learn an instrument to make some kind of grade, college admision scores maybe? I'll ask her next time. I know you can't force this down kids throats or even the parents. There's always parents and admin who are going to think music isn't that important. We always had an art class, but music was optional.

Interesting points, but it's also about how Classical and Jazz isn't taught properly at grade school level. Music isn't a big priority at most schools, at least in the US.

Ipod too.