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If you could be...
By: AJ Date: February 28, 2018, 11:29 pm
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Any musician throughout history......
Who would that be?
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Re: If you could be...
By: indigo_dave Date: March 1, 2018, 10:39 am
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My qualifier is: would we have to relive the musician's 1)
poverty OR 2) self-destructive lifestyle choices OR 3) health
issues ?
Disregarding my question above, the first musician that comes to
mind is Igor Stravinsky. Master composer and musical ground
breaker. Broke ground that offered resource material for jazz
musicians several decades later (I'm thinking here of his "Rites
of Spring" circa 1913).
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Re: If you could be...
By: The Dudley Lama Date: March 1, 2018, 5:24 pm
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sorry... "rights of spring" evokes images and memories of
marshall university, 1977... i'll be back directly...
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Re: If you could be...
By: AJ Date: March 2, 2018, 6:09 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=211.msg2171#msg2171
date=1519922388]
My qualifier is: would we have to relive the musician's 1)
poverty OR 2) self-destructive lifestyle choices OR 3) health
issues ?
Disregarding my question above, the first musician that comes to
mind is Igor Stravinsky. Master composer and musical ground
breaker. Broke ground that offered resource material for jazz
musicians several decades later (I'm thinking here of his "Rites
of Spring" circa 1913).
[/quote]
Your qualifiers kinda jammed my head up a bit.....Now I don't
know who I'd wanna be...Guess I'll have to settle for my
unheralded self.
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Re: If you could be...
By: indigo_dave Date: March 2, 2018, 9:50 pm
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Well I came up with another candidate for me. Louis Armstrong.
He wasn't always that old man singing "Hello Dolly". I read
that when he went north to Chicago from New Orleans his playing
and rhythmic style was advanced and innovative. That's my
thread here in common with Stravinsky. Both innovators within
their genres. And both lived normal, relatively prosperous
lives.
I think the idea of being at the creative forefront of a
musical genre would be beyond exciting. I thought about Charlie
Parker. But he reportedly started taking amphetamines as a teen
when he was playing gigs, when they thought they were as
harmless as vitamins. Parker also was a junkie. And he died at
31 IIRC. I wouldn't have wanted his life.
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Re: If you could be...
By: AJ Date: March 2, 2018, 10:58 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=211.msg2175#msg2175
date=1520049024]
Well I came up with another candidate for me. Louis Armstrong.
He wasn't always that old man singing "Hello Dolly". I read
that when he went north to Chicago from New Orleans his playing
and rhythmic style was advanced and innovative. That's my
thread here in common with Stravinsky. Both innovators within
their genres. And both lived normal, relatively prosperous
lives.
I think the idea of being at the creative forefront of a
musical genre would be beyond exciting. I thought about Charlie
Parker. But he reportedly started taking amphetamines as a teen
when he was playing gigs, when they thought they were as
harmless as vitamins. Parker also was a junkie. And he died at
31 IIRC. I wouldn't have wanted his life.
[/quote]
Have you ever seen the Eastwood directed "Bird"? It's his take
on Charlie Parker's life. Very good film with Forrest Whitaker
as Parker.
According to Miles Davis, seeing Charlie Parker and John
Coltrane doing heroin is why he started doing it.
A number of really talented people go up blind alleys for some
reason....Perhaps having been told how great you are puts so
much pressure on you to continue being great, you inevitably
fear falling from grace, or fear that you simply haven't
anything left and desperation sets in...Then you seek any
respite that takes you out of your self imposed prison.
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Re: If you could be...
By: indigo_dave Date: March 3, 2018, 8:16 am
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Funny but I've never caught the "Bird" movie. Another movie
I've not caught was "Round Midnight" , which portrayed a
fictional character with many parallels in real life in the
period portrayed in the movie.
Now that we're talking about CP, I want to watch a documentary
about him.
This is an excerpt from an interview with Charlie Parker in
1954. Only about 4 minutes.
HTML https://youtu.be/UvsqYo9r_dE
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Re: If you could be...
By: The Dudley Lama Date: March 3, 2018, 9:12 am
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playing music, especially performng, is a drug. period. aint
nothin’ like it anywhere, ever... the only place i get that
particular rush is on stage. doesnt matter if im playing solo or
in an orchestra, the exchange betwixt audience and me gets me
high. now funny thing is, i enjoy being high... always have
in one way or another... and when the glow from performing
begins to fade... and theres no one there... you want a
little taste, a little more... one more bump of that fuzzy, feel
good that youve been riding for the past couple of hours from
the show... and everything you try, no matter how exotic or
blastifabulously intoxicating, it just doesnt do it... close,
but no cigar... then add to that the dues we dont talk about
much... all lifes little moments slip past while we practice
arpeggios, scales and rudiments... isolation is a mistress
both loving and cruel simultaneously. loneliness is a two edged
sword... combine them and you can only ride that train so
far until the conductor punches your ticket... all aboard!
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Re: If you could be...
By: AJ Date: March 3, 2018, 11:24 am
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^^^^Wisdom^^^^^
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Re: If you could be...
By: dinkleburg Date: March 3, 2018, 5:54 pm
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I'd like to be Dinkleburg, the sax guy. 8)
I don't always succeed, it seems. :-\
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