[Dixielandjazz] Taking Sides

[Janie McCue Lynch]

Brian wrote: 



"Steve & Ken 

Well said. Some of the best summing up of the ludicrous nature of factions 

In jazz I've heard in a long time. I'd go further: when I hear music I do 

Not understand I tend to think it might be down to my critical faculties not


Being up to scratch. Rap and hip-hop are not my cup of Lapsang but when 

Kevin Herridge pointed out that it's where the black youth in New Orleans
are 

(certainly not in Preservation Hall!) I made enquiries and found that 

Whilst I still didn't like it much, I nevertheless could appreciate it more.


Incidentally, there's a mention of Ornette Coleman in "The Song for Me" - 

Brief because it's a book about New Orleans: "





I manage to take one class in music theory / composition every semester at
our local college.

There are students of all ages, skills and tastes.  Originally I could not
IMAGINE listening to rap, hip-hop, hard rock, 

Etc...... But after listening to one young man describe his hip-hop piece 
as "my poetry," I DID listen, and learned. 

As I did about all of the other genres included.  



I also learned a lot about electronic compositional tools, and am expanding
my skills in Logic.



I would like to think that students based in those other genres also learned
a bit from me about formally composed music,

such as Ragtime, and also the sounds of Trad Jazz from the pieces I brought
in. 



As above, I have to say that "while I still didn't like it much, I
nevertheless could appreciate it more."   



Jane Lynch

janie39 at socal.rr.com