[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 51, Issue 30

[Steve Barbone]

David Dustin <postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org>

> Steve, you appear to be a victim of your own erudition. You are so
> over-stuffed with facts and associations dating back to Harlem in the 1940s
> -- and evidently in possession of Charlie Barnet?s lost charts -- that you
> are able to connect the dots in ways that others find quirky. And you are
> articulate and extraordinarily verbose, which makes your scorched-earth
> verbal tsunami all the more insufferable to many.  Someone once said about
> Freud: ?Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.? And sometimes Jazz is JAZZ,
> regardless of how many mind-games Ellington or Condon or Basie or whoever
> felt like playing that day in 1930 when some sycophantic pimp of the music
> press was shoving a notebook into his face in front of a bevy of fans.

Dave, does it bother you and the "many" you say you represent? Or are you
just in love with your own pretentiousness?
  
Cheers,
Steve