Doublereed Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2002/11

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [Doublereed-l] Quote of the Day
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:34:42 -0500

"The analogy between baseball fans and jazz fans is closer, it seems to me,

than that between other audiences. The aficionados are aware of and concern
ed
with the refinements of performance and the particular kinds of poetry in

both solo and ensemble performances. (A beautifully executed double steal i
s
as elegant as a Goodman arpeggio.) Like baseball fans, jazz fans know who

played where and with whom and to what effect; they talk a rarefied languag
e
and drop the names of clarinetists and percussionists as baseball fans do t
he
names of long-forgotten (except by them) shortstops and spitballers. Their

retention of detail is prodigious."

-Russell Lynes (1910=E2=80=931991) U.S. editor, critic
=E2=80=9CFrom Ragtime to Riches,=E2=80=9D The Lively Audience: A Social His
tory of the
Visual and Performing Arts in America, 1890-1950