[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Musicians
Stephen Barbone
barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 25 16:51:48 PDT 2003
Jim Beebe wrote: (polite snip) about most songs being written as popular
music.
"When a jazz musician plays them they become jazz. It's fairly
simple...nothing difficult about it at all."
List mates & Jim
IMO that is the plain truth of the matter.
As someone a lot smarter than I once said, "There are Jazz Musicians,
and then there are musicians who also play jazz. Most people, other than
Jazz Musicians, can't tell the difference."
Cheers,
Steve Barbone
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