Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2020-11-02 18:10
Thanks for the examples, James.
Matthew - great response!
A writer once told me Pete Fountain didn't really like a specific player that he played with. I was shocked, because in Pete's autobiography, Pete voiced nothing but admiration for this other player. I asked the writer why he'd say Pete didn't like the player. The writer went on to explain that he had long interviews with Pete, and discovered this information during the interviews. He said that Pete had already made it to the top, this other player had died by the point in time of the autobiography, and that Pete didn't see any reason to drag the musician's name through the mud, so he only focused on the positives of the musician.
I think that might be part of it. It shows a certain amount of class.
I'm guessing the idolaters are yet up-and-coming. I think it is harder to hide one's shortcoming from one's own peers. ;^)>>>
However, in my experience, I was only offered specific examples of what to emulate from the various folks (one of my instructors loved Marcellus' embouchure, and we were all supposed to emulate that, another instructor I had met with Benny Goodman a couple times a year, and that instructor would bring a couple of Benny's concepts to us, another instructor enjoyed Gigliotti's sound, and modified each of our mouthpieces to match Gigliotti's, etc.)
Perhaps one reason folks are prone to idolizing others is: failures/inadequacies are so common place in the natural world, that it is uplifting to recognize the nearly perfect. (Thinking of photography, this rings true.)
Fuzzy
;^)>>>
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