[Dixielandjazz] trombone Nut Puckers

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Nothing wrong with suggesting that a trombone solo is objectively considered 

and within a proper context better than most --

Which is all Marek wrote...  He was saying that other folk might be impressed, 

not "the constitution of you my fellow androids might respond to that use of plumbing..."


if anybody wants to say that all judgments in music are entirely subjective, 
matters of what is individual taste, presumably he denies various claims made of 

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? 


Or are concerts of Eddie Condon music to be subsidised as palliative care for geriatrics? 


Bad music is being stuck in deadly unresolved feelings, whether frantically overactive 

or moping deep in Schmaltz 


Good music is like being awake and not out of touch with feelings 

"Taste" is for cakes and hamburgers, 

and a simpler matter than music...  
unless music is to you so simple you'd never consider participating in a group like this. 


But you can't appreciate music or anything cognitive if it's in a language you don't understand. 


Play the "personal taste" card too hard, you are reducing music preference to the subject-matter of pathology. 

If you have anything to say about music you can't reasonably deny some actual standards are involved. 

And say you're not interested in that noisy Armstrong and find Nick LaRocca challenging. 

It's a matter of being interested enough to listen, and to READ 

Nut Puckers are of course the grooves in the brain ...

Robert R. Calder