paul secor

Paul, can you name some popular genres where this is happening? Nope. Music in general is dying.

I've been watching collections of Midsomer Murders from our library system. The mysteries themselves are fairly mundane, but I find it very entertaining to watch dozens (actually hundreds over the course of the series) of great English character actors acting in small parts and often seeming to have a great time hamming it up.

In a way - yes, but apart from the fact it depends on where you draw a line between copying and just "playing in the idiom", if you (not you, Paul, but those who make statements like the one you refer to) exclude from the start all those routes into jazz that will help to EASE people into jazz in an entertaining way (what's wrong about entertainment anyway?) and to provide them with an incentive to venture further into other RELATED fields of jazz step by step and if you insist instead on wagging your finger at your target audience and lecturing them about what they are supposed to like then you should not be too surprised if they turn their backs on you. After all, given the wide field of music and the wide field of tastes, music (including jazz) is a buyer's market, not a seller's market. Okay, but if all (or the vast majority if what exists) is entertainment or recreation, there's no real creativity and music (no matter what the genre) will die. That even goes imo if there's a large audience. Eventually, that large audience will consist entirely of morons and the music won't matter (except to morons). You may disagree. If so. we can leave it at that. No use arguing about what we can't agree on.

I've read that story elsewhere - can't recall where - as well.

David "Honeyboy" Edwards: Mississippi Delta Bluesman (Folkways) Signed by Mr. Edwards from back in the days before I came to feel that musicians' time is too valuable to waste it signing autographs for people like me.

Years ago, when I heard The Rascals' "Groovin'" on the radio, I thought that Felix Cavaliere was singing "you and me and Leslie" instead of "you and me endlessly".

The sentence seems clear enough to me - especially when the next sentence is read with it. It says that music should be more than pleasant entertainment provided by musicians who are merely recreating and copying the past.

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You're that guy. Actually, I'm sure you have a few companions.

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Can't remember seeing a skinny Babe Ruth before.

Hope it's a good birthday, wherever you be.

I came up with 56.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

I don't know Mr. Atzmon's music and I don't know if I'd ever go to hear him play. I do know that I don't need someone else to make that decision for me.

Cool to see a photo of two legends together.

John Fahey: Volume 2 - Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes (Takoma)