sometimes jazz is just too heavy

[alocispepraluger102]

so many of our recorded heroes had such frightful tragic lives, with many destroyed at such tender ages, despite the beautiful blossoms of creativity they shared or were.

hearing their beauty and knowing at least some of the hell's many of them lived, sometimes the stench of their tragedies is just too strong to bear.....

Edited September 12, 2011 by alocispepraluger102

[jazzbo]

That's life. By which I mean you can examine many lives within the arts and without and come to that sort of conclusion. Chance and circumstance and nature and nurture and the air and the ether all are a battlefield or a cakewalk and sometimes both to endure and win or be defeated by for any of us. The difference being with artists, and in our case especially jazz artists because we love and understand the art, we have that beauty to savor . . . . And so yes it's bitter-sweet at times, but we don't have to dwell on the bitter background.

I'm listening to Nathan Davis tell a little story right now. All those stories! Art is a wonderful thing, to be able to bring something out of the human brain and communicate it in a fascinating way.

[alocispepraluger102]

Art is a wonderful thing, to be able to bring something out of the human brain and communicate it in a fascinating way.

.....and most particularly to/with our young.........

thanks for the perspective.