[Dixielandjazz] Was - Charlie Parker - Now - Differences ofOpinion

[Stephen Barbone]

Good on ya mate.

Cheers,
Steve

Norrie Thomson wrote:

> I heartily agree with Jazzjerry's comments.
>
> Norrie
>
> Norrie Thomson
> Edinburgh
> Scotland
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Jazzjerry at aol.com>
> To: <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>; <Jazzjerry at aol.com>
> Cc: <jpettjazz at btinternet.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Was - Charlie Parker - Now - Differences
> ofOpinion
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > The cutting and pasting that is going on in this series of messages is
> simply
> > getting more and more confusing so I do not intend to even try to chop any
> > bits out of your last retort apart from one short paragraph which I just
> don't
> > understand which is:-
> >
> > "What pretentious rubbish, to coin your favorite phrase. Some folks get
> > one year's worth of experience 40 times in 40 years and others may get
> > 40 years. Based on your absurd remarks about Charlie Parker, it is
> > obvious that you are among the former."
> >
> >  Both you and I are perfectly entitled to have opinions on all sorts of
> > issues and I'm sure that they will differ on many subjects not just music.
> I
> > presume that you might agree any opinion on a subject will be based on
> experience
> > and knowledge of that subject be it music, politics, food, or even dress
> sense.
> >
> > In your opinion my remarks about Charlie Parker were absurd but on what do
> > base that opinion? It was simply an opinion on my part with which you
> disagreed.
> > I will restate the simple opinion that Parker was overrated and the
> > note-by-note study of everything that he recorded strikes me as just
> bizarre. That is
> > my opinion and I am entitled to it as it is formulated based on my
> following
> > and listening to jazz over the past forty years. You are entitled to
> disagree
> > with me based on your own experience of the music but you are not entitled
> to
> > slag me off.
> >
> > Having read your posts to the DJML over the years since you came on board
> I
> > have noticed that you always seem very ready to express an opinion on a
> wide
> > range of subjects which have come up but also very ready to belittle
> anyone who
> > dares to express an opinion which is at variance to yours. Before you rush
> to
> > attack me for this opinion of your posts might I state that I do not
> consider
> > myself an expert on every DJML message but base my remarks on a general
> > impression which I am perfectly entitled to do.
> >
> > There are also many issues upon which I have not expressed an opinion. For
> > example I have both listened to your band's CD which you kindly sent me
> and also
> > did view a video of one BSJB live performance but have never expressed any
> > opinion on the competence or otherwise of the band and whilst I have an
> opinion
> > about what I have seen and heard I shall not be expressing it on the DJML.
> >
> > Recently what really got up my nose was your remark which included the
> words
> > 'awful British Trad' and 'couple of good bands' albeit with a smiley. This
> > comment seemed to me to be casting an unnecessary slur on a very large
> number of
> > excellent British jazz players and I would query upon what you base the
> > opinion that there have only been a 'couple of good bands'. Presumably
> listening to
> > them because I can't think of any other way that you could arrive at such
> an
> > opinion.
> >
> > Finally I will state that I found your remark "do you have Alzheimer's?
> ;-)"
> > neither funny or in very good taste and certainly do not think that such
> > tasteless use of such a serious and sad illness helps your argument in any
> way
> > whatsoever.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jerry
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