[Dixielandjazz] Music theory

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Thank you for clearing that up  that is exactly what I was looking of 
in an answer :))
I also should have added the two names you mentioned, I am sure there 
are others from that era, that could fall into this category, the point 
I was trying to make was that these early folks created Jazz as we all 
know and love it from that golden era.

But certainly many of them had not technical or professional theory 
training, since they were often not even allowed to attend school or 
many other things.

My point is that musicians who play jazz approach it from many 
different streets and have taken it down many other streets, with or 
without theory, and I am not intending to put down theory or the study 
of it here folks, nor those that make a living teaching  it, just 
attempting to say that often times we can tend to over analyze and 
agonize over some of these issues.

Just Play , and feel free to play it YOUR WAY which does not make the 
others play it incorrect either.

Cheers,

Tom PHD . From the Musical College of Hardknocks :))  Wiggins


-----Original Message-----
From: Edgerton, Paul A <paul.edgerton at eds.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:23:06 -0800
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Music theory

   Wiggins axed:
"Anybody know who Taught LOUIS  Armstrong and Buddy Bolden, Kid Ory, and
Jelly Roll grammar and theory?"

Fate Mirabel and King Oliver, to name two.  We should all have teaches
such as these. It don't have be "book learning" to be theory. As already
noted, ears matter too.

-- Paul Edgerton


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