[Dixielandjazz] Bix's Solo

[rorel at aol.com]

Don's response is a good one but as I read the thread we were talking about notes and not emotions. Of coure, emotions cannot be analyzed nor should they be. But the notes of a solo and how they fit together can indeed tell us a great deal about how a musician thought about music and what he heard in his head. Does a musician plays streams of notes with no regard to a previous phrase or does it come out organized, structurally sound? Does he think horizontally (thematically) or vertically (harmonically)? It doesn't matter if Bix thoguht about his illness, his next gig or a ham sandwich - the notes are the notes and can be analyzed quite apart from the emotions felt at the time of their creation. I am sure that Bix did not make a conscious decision to play a flatted 9 here or there, but it was instinctual and a good analysis of one of his solos can tell us a little bit about how he heard music in his mind's ear and can bring us one baby-step closer to that miraculous moment when the the neuron first jumped the synapse in the artist's creative moment.
 
 Respectfully submitted,
 
 Ray Osnato
 Leader of the French jazz band, "Ray Osnato and the Moselle Toughs"
 
 
 
 
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 Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Bix's Solo
 
 >>> >> All of the mentioned verbal autopsy of Bix's solo seems to have led to what might be called "Analysis paralysis." The pint is that the man played what he played for HIS reasons or emotions of the moment. No one can truly say what he thought. You cannot what it meant to him - you can say what it meant to you, so any analysis would best start with your emotions, not his. They guy sitting nest tyo you whe it is played may have a totally different take on this. So just listen and examine YOUR eotions to the music, not that of the long gone BIX. 
 >> One should recall the comment about explaining jazz. "If you got to ask you'll never understand it!" 
 > Don (I know what a cold day in Hell - A town in SE Michigan that's just as cold as North Michigan this week) Ingle (who has also been to Paradise (a small village in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan)which is colder than Hell today. 
 
   
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