[Dixielandjazz] "Free Jazz" as subsidy

[ROBERT Calder]

On a visit to Spain long ago ....   no, that's not the start of a 
limerick!
anyway I was talking to this bandleading musician, and he was talking of 
his debt to Finnish "Free Jazz"  -- I did once see a TV feature on 
another Finnish musical enthusiasm, to wit Tango...

What appealed to this bandleader, who when asked what Finnish "Free 
Jazz" was like wrinkled his nose, was the ability of the most gifted of 
his personnel to head off north-east and come back bearing banknotes 
paid him as rather a favourite among Finnish fans of NOKIMAA  ---  "NOT 
OUR KIND, IF MUSIC AT ALL" as Marek might suggest.

In Finland it seems at the time of our conversation there was money to 
be won ...

Not of course to be compared with the case of Arvella Gray, who had the 
special problem after he'd lost his sight to a shotgun salvo from the 
husband of a female friend.  He had managed a precarious living walking 
around with a guitar, but gradually attained to a level of proficiency 
which damaged his finances. He was no longer so incapable that people 
habitually paid him to move on.

Robert R. Calder
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