[Dixielandjazz] Free Form Music

[Charles Suhor]

For the record, I've read Ulysses to the end (English teacher conscience--I surely wouldn't do it again). But it's still widely in print and circulation, and it can't be all for graduate students.

Charlie 

On Oct 19, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Marek Boym wrote:
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> On 20 October 2014 00:08, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:
> Okay, I get it--there's generally though not universally a low threshold of acceptance of free form music
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> Free form - what?
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> I also get it that even art that stands the test of time often remains impenetrable to large numbers of people. As a retired English teacher, I publicly confess that I found Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom" and Joyce’s "Finnegan’s Wake" unreadable.
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> Have they really?  Joyce is widely celebrated, but do people read it?  I still have to meet someone who's read "Ulysses" to the end.
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> But I won't dismiss those works as nonsense or be flippant about the authors or readers who can respond to them with pleasure.
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> As to the authors - I neither know nor care.  But are there people who really "respond to them with pleasure?"  Or might it be the case of the emperor, some "clothing" and the little boy?I tend to believe it's the latter.
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> Cheers
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> Charlie Suhor
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> On Oct 18, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Louis Lince wrote:
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> > Steve,
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> > We don't often agree, but we don't fall out these days! You've nailed it with this one
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> > Best
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> > Louis
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> > Steve said <polite snip>Al Cohn was asked if he listened to free form jazz. "No, I don't," he replied, "and I don't read books written by people who can't spell."
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