[Dixielandjazz] Free Form Music

[Charles Suhor]

If this was Facebook, I'd press "LIKE" to that post. I'm cc-ong it to the list w/out your name, since you sent it off-list. --Charlie

Charlie

On Oct 19, 2014, at 4:58 PM, _______ wrote:
> I can’t believe that one gentleman was bored by our emails!  If so, it must be his fault for not broaching a topic that interested him!  There is so much here to consider! 

>> On Oct 19, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:
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>> Okay, I get it--there's generally though not universally a low threshold of acceptance of free form music on the list. Understandably, since its title is "D(ixieland)JML" and the byword is "OKOM." Pluralize the K, and I’m good with it. I can enjoy good jazz from Bunk to Monk, as the old slogan goes (and beyond).
>> By way of footnote to the strand, I'll add that experimentation in music, literature, painting, theater, film, or whatever, has always been met with hostility and ridicule by those who are comfortable with their conditioned tastes. Some innovative works, styles, and genres die a natural and deserved  death, while others endure to be enjoyed by large or specialize populations. 
>> 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. 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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>> Charlie Suhor