[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 7, Issue 82

[DWSI at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/26/2003 1:57:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com writes:

> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Dixieland Music Taught in Schools
> 
If you'd like another opinion, it's not taught in schools because what is 
easy to teach in jazz often is irrelevant to jazz playing or jazz understanding. 
How many times have you heard "experts" write about meter, style, how one 
evolves, and yet say really nothing about the soul of the music itself. These are 
the same "experts" that try to teach us Dixieland is simply a crude preamble 
to real, or sophisticated, jazz. Obviously, we're supposed to get over liking 
Dixieland once we have the chance to hear to Bebop, or whatever happened in 
jazz from 1950 on. It's the old rut that music "experts" and teachers too often 
put themselves into. What comes later is always better. And it's such hogwash. 
Is Mahler really better than Mozart?

Dan (piano fingers) Spink