[Dixielandjazz] Re: Political Correctness

[Mike C.]

Thank you Ted. Things today have really gotten to the point 
of ridiculous. If we can't even communicate or go to a jazz 
concert we might as well just hang it up. Life is way too 
short man.

Mike

Cebuisle2 at aol.com wrote:
> Well spoken Mike. Many of us have had to tip toe around this issue. A 
> lot of the really great jazz musicians of yesteryear were put down by 
> African Americans then and now-including Louis Armstrong.
>  
> My best friend while in school was an Afro-Cuban (if there is such a 
> thing) and when the description "Black" first came into enforced use he 
> told me never to refer to his race that way. He said he was a "nice 
> chocolate color" and NOT black! I never forgot that. have trouble using 
> the "black" word to this day..
>  
> What is humor to one is a racial insult (or religious insult) to 
> another. My ex-father-in-law , a well know Jewish optometrist, used to 
> tell me obscene Jewish jokes. As a Catholic at the time, I could never 
> repeat them in Jewish company! 
>  
> Things have gone downhill humor wise-
>                                                                                       
> Ted
>  
>  

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"The trouble with most musicians today is that they are 
copycats. Of
course you have to start out playing like someone else. You 
have a
model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. 
But then
you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an 
individual. I
can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of 
one hand."
-Lester Young (1909-1959)

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you."
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"You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the 
music of
Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has 
gone on for
centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why 
have we become
so 'hip' that we can say,'Bebop is square,'or 'New Orleans 
is square'?
This, to me, is a shame."
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