Klarinet Archive - Posting 000269.txt from 2007/05

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kell's Stravinsky
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:50:48 -0400

On 27 May, mikeraz@-----.com (Michael Rasmussen) wrote:

> For another instance of different, is it better or worse, see this recent
> post by Sherman Friedland:
> http://clarinet.cc/archives/2007/05/gerry_mulligan.html

I looked at this post -- please, all of you, look at it -- and would be
interested to know how you think it's relevant.

Is it that you want to say, we should consider ANY way of playing something
acceptable?

Or is it that, if people think you're a great player in a particular field,
whatever you do outside that field is justifiable to some degree BECAUSE
you're thought to be a great player in the field?

Or is it that, on the contrary, it ISN'T justifiable outside the field?

Or is it that we should have more respect for the great jazz musicians that
we meet in music stores, however rude they may be to us? Or is it that we
should have respect for the great jazz musicians that we meet in music stores
that AREN'T rude to us, and have more respect for them than those that ARE
rude to us?

Or is it that the world of jazz is mysteriously better than the world of any
other sort of music?

It's difficult to know, you have to admit -- though I enjoyed imagining the
very lovely young woman 'with whom [they] were all fiends'.

I look forward to your explanation.

Tony
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