[Dixielandjazz] Give jazz a chance

[Ron Wheeler]

Sound advice, Brighten.  If one is trying to teach oneself to like something
one otherwise doesn't. that is.  I suppose I could learn to survive on an
endless diet of brussels sprouts if I forced myself to.

The point is, here on the "D"ixieland "J"azz "M"ailing "L"ist, most of us
have fairly well formed ideas of what is musical to us and what is not.  If
I may abandon my normally PC personality for a moment, the old saying is,
"Life's too short to spend it with an ugly woman."  I'd like to paraphrase
that to say, "Life's too short to force myself to enjoy Miles, Bird, and all
the rest of those atonal, play the scales up and down 'musicians' that I
don't care a rat's ass for."

Ron [whereinhell's that hot 5's cd?] Wheeler
Wake Island

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brighten Godfrey" <godfreyb@bigw.org>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 19:22
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Give jazz a chance


> John Farrell wrote:
> >
> > Pat Cooke said succintly :
> >
> > "Bird, Diz, Miles, and Lester didn't destroy anything.  OKOM, YKOM, or
> > whatever, is still there to listen to any time you want to.  They merely
> > added another dimension to jazz which you can choose to listen to or not
> > listen to.  Lighten up.
> >     Old brain cells find it difficult to comprehend new things...
>
> It's not just old brain cells.  I think a good bit of what you enjoy
> listening to is what you understand...and what you understand is what
> you've listened to. :-)  I'm 22, and a few years ago bop sounded like
> nothing more than a continuous stream of pseudo-random notes to me.  But
> after listening to it more, and being taught to play it, I can hear the
> patterns better, and now I enjoy it just as much as trad jazz.  Check out
> some of Clifford Brown's recordings for some wonderful melody.
>
> That's just a generalization, of course; everyone likes different things.
>
> Brighten Godfrey
>
>
>
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