[Dixielandjazz] Educators vs. Successful Working Musicians

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Finally Steve you are wrong  : ))


A successful Working Musician is one who either won the lottery, or 
married into money, or is being kept by a woman for his other talents, 
charm and wonderful personality.

Or maybe he is a wealthy Lawyer or Brain Surgeon playing a bit of music 
on the weekends for the tax write offs,  :))

ROTFLOL

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:46:23 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Educators vs. Successful Working Musicians

   Gus Bloch @ Talegatorz at aol.com wrote

> I wonder how many of these music educators were ever sucessful working
> musicians in the first place?

Great question Gus. But then, how do we define successful working 
musician?
If we say that's a guy/gal who makes a good living at it, then there 
are not
a lot of them around. If we talk about successful working jazz 
musicians,
there are even less.

My votes for successful working musicians would go to those in Symphony
Orchestras, or pit bands, or on TV talk shows, or those who back 
Madonna et
al, or those in Military bands, or Smooth Jazzers like Kenny G., or 
jazzers
like Wynton Marsalis, or gasp/choke. . . those musicians who make a 
decent
living as educators.

On the other hand, if we equate success to "artistic" achievement and 
not
filthy lucre, then all of us jazz musicians, are successful, especially 
if
starving in spite of our genius, creativity and persistence.  :-) VBG

Cheers, (tongue firmly in cheek)
Steve





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