[Dixielandjazz] trombone Nut Puckers

Jazz Jerry jazz1jerry at btinternet.com
Thu Apr 24 00:11:38 PDT 2014


Precisely!

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> On 23 Apr 2014, at 23:20, "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
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> Huh???
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> From: ROBERT R. CALDER 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:26 PM
> To: Bob Ringwald 
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List 
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] trombone Nut Puckers
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> Nothing wrong with suggesting that a trombone solo is objectively considered 
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> and within a proper context better than most --
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> Which is all Marek wrote...  He was saying that other folk might be impressed, 
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> not "the constitution of you my fellow androids might respond to that use of plumbing..."
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> 
> 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 
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> Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? 
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> Or are concerts of Eddie Condon music to be subsidised as palliative care for geriatrics? 
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> Bad music is being stuck in deadly unresolved feelings, whether frantically overactive 
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> or moping deep in Schmaltz 
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> Good music is like being awake and not out of touch with feelings 
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> "Taste" is for cakes and hamburgers, 
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> and a simpler matter than music...  
> unless music is to you so simple you'd never consider participating in a group like this. 
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> But you can't appreciate music or anything cognitive if it's in a language you don't understand. 
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> Play the "personal taste" card too hard, you are reducing music preference to the subject-matter of pathology. 
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> If you have anything to say about music you can't reasonably deny some actual standards are involved. 
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> And say you're not interested in that noisy Armstrong and find Nick LaRocca challenging. 
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> It's a matter of being interested enough to listen, and to READ 
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> Nut Puckers are of course the grooves in the brain ...
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> Robert R. Calder
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