[Dixielandjazz] A little humor off of the TPIN

[Bob Romans]

> Yogi Berra Explains Jazz
> 
> 
> Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
>  
> Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half
> improvisation. The
> other half is the part people  play while others are
> playing something they
> never played with anyone who played  that part. So if you
> play the wrong
> part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be
> right if you play
> it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's
> wrong.
>  
> Interviewer: I don't understand.
>  
> Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't
> understand it. It's
> too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
>  
> Interviewer: Do you understand  it?
>  
> Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood
> it, I wouldn't
> know anything about it.
>  
> Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players  alive
> today?
>  
> Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. 
> Except for the
> ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead,
> that the ones that
> are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are
> dead. Some  would
> kill for it.
> 
> Interviewer: What is syncopation?
>  
> Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now
> happens either before or
> after you hear  it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when
> they happen because
> that would be some other type of music. Other types of
> music can be jazz,
> but only if they're the  same as something different
> from those other kinds.
>  
> Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
>  
> Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not
> understand jazz that well.


Warm regards,
Bob Romans,
1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
Lodi, Calif. 95242
Ph 209-747-1148
www.cellblockseven2002.net
"If you must choose between two evils,  choose the one you haven't tried
yet."