[78-L] fwd: Marsalis makes the world safe for pure jazz^

[Royal Pemberton]

Somewhere I have a LP with an Albert Ayler live cut on it called
'Ghosts'....it sounded like seven minutes of the kind of incidental sounds I
got on tape when I was recording a big band live in 1982 that my dad played
in, when musicians were just showing up, and warming up their instruments
within the 10 or 15 minutes before the first set began....

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> eugene hayhoe wrote:
> > I'd also say most 'avant-garde' musicians I'm familiar
> > with have some degree of humor in their playing as well,
> > as opposed to the sanctimonious attitude they are often
> > accused of having.   Gene
>
> As I've admitted, this music isn't my bag and I realize it is yours, but
> sometimes I think that the humor might be them thinking "I can't BELIEVE
> that these people are actually buying this stuff!!!!"  I've also
> discussed music styles as being like a language, that it is difficult
> for non-native speakers to hear accents.  Thus I don't think I can
> differentiate between good and bad in these styles, and I wonder if just
> ANYBODY could noodle around and play in some of these styles and be
> accepted.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbie.com
>
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