[Dixielandjazz] Give jazz a chance

[Ron L'Herault]

I concur.   I grew up when rock and roll was just emerging.  I didn't like
it then and I don't like it now.  I've heard "modern" jazz and it does
nothing for me.  I am not inclined to listen to something I don't like just
because it is performed by good musicians any more than I want to listen to
a loud car exhaust because the owner has bought a state of the art flow
through exhaust system.  It's still more noise than anything.  On the other
hand, I didn't listen to much classical music growing up and don't know a
lot about it but I like most of what I hear, especially Medieval and
Baroque, but very little of the modern.

Ron L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Connelly" <willc@nova.edu>
To: "John Farrell" <stridepiano@tesco.net>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:52 AM
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...
>
> Ah, gentlemen  . . .
>
> I must insert a word for intolerance here. At one glance, I was able to
> determine that I like Reubens (and Petty and Vargas) and found Picasso
> offensive. Jaguars never appealed, ditto the Edsel, and the most
> beautiful automobile I've seen since I owned a 1935 Packard convertible
> with rumble seat and sediments was the Broward TS Sports Coupe that no
> one ever heard of.
>
> Exactly as I have been able to reach instantaneous conclusions with
> respect to visual arts, so it is that I am content to follow Pat's
> advice and ignore all iterations of music that require the Highway
> Patrol and sniffer dogs to find the melody or which are filled with
> alien and painful progressions. These rejections are not the fruit of
> old brain cells - I have loathed crap of all kinds for years and years
> and have no intention of subjecting myself to anything as unpleasant as
> modern jazz, Andrew Lloyd Webbed or Kenny G. to demonstrate tolerance. I
> have none and damned well don't want any.
>
> It helps to be Irish.
>
> Kindly
>
> Will Connelly
>
>
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