[78-L] Everyone Their Own Picasso ^, (was Marsalis makes the world safe for pure jazz^)

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "eugene hayhoe" <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>
> Well, I've been looking at the art of childre since I was a child, and 
> while I'm no Picasso expert, I don't think I've ever been in danger of 
> confusing the two; same hold true for Pollack.
> Although I'm a drummer, not a saxist, based on the couple of times I've 
> had a sax in my mouth, I'd guess that the number of untutored folks, 
> children or otherwise, who could randomly pick up a sax and make the 
> sounds that Ayler, Coltrane, Shepp, and so forth did is pretty minimal. 
> Just in the areas of instrumental tone and pitch range of notes produced 
> alone the minimum chops required are going to beat the 'kid,' let alone 
> playing melody lines, etc. Anyone who thinks they (Trane, Ayler, Shepp, 
> Coleman) are incompetent should check out the recods all of these folks 
> made playing 'standards' and the like - they played the way they did by 
> choice, not inability to do anything else. I've always thought the way 
> people 'box up' art into a limited thing was bizarre.
>
The question is NOT wbether the instrumental sounds can/could be duplicated 
by some third party...?!
OTOH, it is whether the sounds produced by a newcomer to the instrument, 
when duplicated by a
more competent player, are thus somehow lifted into another "sphere"...?!

Steven C. Barr