[Dixielandjazz] What is Music

[Bob Romans]

Steve...send me some of that good stuff you smoke!
Warm regards,
Bob Romans
Cell Block 7 Jazz Band
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Cell 209-747-1148
Because I play trumpet, I envy no one.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] What is Music


> I'm with Mike C. on this.
>
> Music is what ever you are. If one has to master music before one can play
> it I guess Jazz is not music. I mean, most early jazz musicians did not 
> come
> close to mastering music, before playing jazz. Early Armstrong included.
> Many OKOM jazz musicians today have not mastered music.
>
> They just picked up a horn and blow. :-) VBG.
>
> On the other hand, most modern jazz players have mastered music as well as
> their horns. Yet we deride them. What's wrong with that picture?
>
> Harmony & melody? Who is the judge of that?  Right, except for oriental
> music or all the other music around the world that none of us really
> understand etc.
>
> I mean, like wow, how pretentious to talk about what music must have.
>
> Kind of like "What is Jazz?" Better musicians than we have always laughed 
> at
> such a nonsensical question. Any answer one chooses to give is not only
> erroneous, but virtually meaningless.
>
> It's kind of like saying "I can speak any language but Greek" So you talk 
> to
> me in German and I answer: "That's Greek to me."
>
> Best definition of music I ever heard is that "music is a conversation". 
> One
> may not like it, call it noise, or not understand it. That doesn't change
> the fact that it is a conversation because if the noise or music speaks to
> one person, it is a musical conversation.
>
> Right on, Mike C.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
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