09-19-2011, 04:59 PM
A truly interesting post.
I wish he used capitalization, though. It was slow read for me.
But this was my favorite bit:
"One last thing - it is a little alarming to me to see that my little rant on this topic seems to have generated such a relatively huge response. it makes me feel that in this day and age, even within the "jazz community", controversy, especially PUBLIC controversy, has the chance to "win" over musical substance, even in terms of what gets discussed - people seem to absolutely love it. I have seen (and have never dug) at least one of my peers banking on this for a few years now with his public pronouncements and I have to admit that I underestimated the impact/interest that a "negative" public comment even on an obscure corner of the web can manifest. I guess I wish that the actual playing and writing could generate the kind of discussion that what was essentially an off the cuff cultural/political blurb into cyberspace seemed to. again, it seems more practicing and better music needs to be involved - gonna continue to work hard on that (finding the good notes) as a goal."
While extremely critical of "the G-man", he did take the time to articulate his criticisms, something a lot of "bashers" don't and probably can't do. He also gave counterpoint to that paragraph of his, but even after that, I think most important part was:
I guess I wish that the actual playing and writing could generate the kind of discussion...
Indeed.
Spreading the word of good notes seems like such a much more rewarding activity (paying it forward) rather than wallowing in invective.
I wish he used capitalization, though. It was slow read for me.
But this was my favorite bit:
"One last thing - it is a little alarming to me to see that my little rant on this topic seems to have generated such a relatively huge response. it makes me feel that in this day and age, even within the "jazz community", controversy, especially PUBLIC controversy, has the chance to "win" over musical substance, even in terms of what gets discussed - people seem to absolutely love it. I have seen (and have never dug) at least one of my peers banking on this for a few years now with his public pronouncements and I have to admit that I underestimated the impact/interest that a "negative" public comment even on an obscure corner of the web can manifest. I guess I wish that the actual playing and writing could generate the kind of discussion that what was essentially an off the cuff cultural/political blurb into cyberspace seemed to. again, it seems more practicing and better music needs to be involved - gonna continue to work hard on that (finding the good notes) as a goal."
While extremely critical of "the G-man", he did take the time to articulate his criticisms, something a lot of "bashers" don't and probably can't do. He also gave counterpoint to that paragraph of his, but even after that, I think most important part was:
I guess I wish that the actual playing and writing could generate the kind of discussion...
Indeed.
Spreading the word of good notes seems like such a much more rewarding activity (paying it forward) rather than wallowing in invective.