[Dixielandjazz] Pigeon holes

[Patrick Cooke]

"Shiek' wrote:
>>>Like other matters of personal musical taste, it's a waste to try to
"understand it". Just accept that some musicians enjoy a particular style
well enough to want to participate in it by emulating it.<<<

   It's my guess the guy(s) you're 'emulating' were innovators....(Louis?,
Bix?, other?).  If not, maybe you should be 'emulating' someone else.

>>>The urge to innovate is strictly a personal matter. In the music market
where one is trying to make a living, bandleaders innovators to be a pain in
the buttox, because those with the urge to innovate usually display
obnoxious egotism, and worse, usually can't/won't conform to the band's
style sufficiently to play so as to make the band sound good...<<<

 I don't know any musician who does not try to make the band sound good.  I
believe what you're saying is that his idea of what sounds good does not
agree with yours.

Pat Cooke


----- Original Message -----
From: "David W. Littlefield" <dwlit@cpcug.org>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Pigeon holes


> At 09:07 AM 9/11/2002 -0500, Patrick Cooke wrote:
> >I can't understand a group playing an entire gig trying to sound just
> >like someone else.
>
> Like other matters of personal musical taste, it's a waste to try to
> "understand it". Just accept that some musicians enjoy a particular style
> well enough to want to participate in it by emulating it.
>
> >My fondest wish is that my playing were unclassifiable. Then I would be
an
> >innovator!
> >    But an innovator is usually a pariah, until one or more respected
voices
> >say "I like it".
>
> The urge to innovate is strictly a personal matter. In the music market
> where one is trying to make a living, bandleaders innovators to be a pain
> in the buttox, because those with the urge to innovate usually display
> obnoxious egotism, and worse, usually can't/won't conform to the band's
> style sufficiently to play so as to make the band sound good...
>
> --Sheik
>
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