[Dixielandjazz] Re: Rex Allen responds / vocals

[Dan Augustine]

>From: Vachesr at aol.com
>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:32:36 EDT
>To: jazzmusiciansforum at jazzmusiciansforum.talklist.com
>Cc: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Rex Allen responds / vocals
>
>Greetings, Rex--       As usual, you hit the nail
>on the head.  Seems to me that all  jazz and jazz
>musicians woud sound better if the players would
>follow the advise often offered by Bobby Hackett:
>"Take it easy. Not every chorus  has to be a
>home  run."
>Warren Vache' Sr.
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     Excellent advice, which is very similar to 
what the composer Gabriel Fauré had to say to his 
students:

                 "Do not try to be a genius in every bar."
                       -- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

     Dan

(For more information on him, see: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/faure.html)
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