[Dixielandjazz] Technique vs. Feeling

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hello Jacques:

The world is full of amateur musicians that are Great Entertainers and 
making a lot more money than many Professional Musicians will ever make 
outside of high paid Classical Orchestra positions that often employ 
such great virtuoso artists at great financial losses while playing to 
empty concert halls on corporate sponsored events where even the 
corporate sponsors don't respect them enough to show up and listen.   
The World really does not care how technically brilliant and 
hypersensitive we are, they just want to hear good music that makes 
them feel good.   we often offer them a diversion to their own daily 
problems, and the last thing on their mind is to pay money to come to a 
concert and have to think about what we are playing to them.

Bottom line is it is never about US but about THE AUDIENCE and without 
them we do not have a reason to exist.   A hard lesson that still has 
not been learned by many in the Technically Brilliant Classical field 
who simply often feel that they are entitled to entitlements to pay 
them to do what They choose to do whether or not they have a real 
consumer market for it.

Times have changed too bad many in our industry have refused to adjust 
and change with them.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: jakpiano <jakpiano at bluewin.ch>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:51:43 +0100
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Technique vs. Feeling

   Hi All, 
 
  This post was particularly interesting for me because when I say to a 
person I love that an 
  amateur musician will n e v e r be able to play as well as a 
professional, 
  the answer is that a professional may not have the feeling an amateur 
has 
 and thus sometimes an amateur might be more appreciated. 
 
  What is the test for saying what is better between good technique and 
average feeling vi-a-vis 
 avearge technique and good feeling ¨! 
 
 Regards 
 
 Jacques Covo (p) 
 Geneva Traditional Jazz 6tet 
 
  
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