Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 2007/05

From: ACHESON ARTHUR <arthur.acheson@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kell's Stravinsky
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 04:44:09 -0400

But it's the performance that counts. There are many great
performances of 'C Jam Blues'? Is it a great composition? For
its purpose perhaps, but hardly in the classical sense.
On 30 May 2007, at 09:26, clarni bass wrote:

> In jazz many times the performer(s) is the
> composer(s).
>
> Nitai
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> --- ACHESON ARTHUR <arthur.acheson@-----.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Too many questions Tony, things must be quiet with
>> you at the moment.
>> Perhaps it's a matter of degree but I think it is
>> sometimes helpful
>> to regard jazz as a performers' music and
>> 'classical' music as a
>> composers' music. Perhaps Kell would not have
>> agreed?
>> Arthur Acheson
>> On 29 May 2007, at 22:50, Tony Pay wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>
>>>
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