Subject: RE: Kurt Cobain
From: Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 14:24:42 EST
--- Phoebe Caulfield <martincaulfield@yahoo.com>
wrote:
How come the world thinks music is a religion?
Jazz is my religion. :) (Ellington, Billie
Holiday, Miles, Monk, Coltrane, Mingus,
Dolphy...anything on Blue Note records 50's & 60's)
Please just try it and you'll see, "the shortest jazz
poem ever written...just one word: Listen" - Jon
Hendricks' narration, "New York, New York" -George
Russell album
He's a genius, she's a genius and all that talk.
"You've been telling me you're a genius since you've
been seventeen, in all the time I knew you I don't
know what you mean..."
- "Reelin' In The Years" from Can't Buy Me A Thill
- Steely Dan album (Becker & Fagen)
That kinda says it all for me.
There are rock people who can tap into emotions, some
do it very well, some are more consistent than others.
But Ain't no way none of it come close to Walt
Whitman, etc. And if you called Frank Zappa a genius,
he'd probably have spit in your eye....
"That music [you listen to] is nothing but
shouting..." - my Dad (and I'm going to be 50 in June)
He's partially right, Dietrich Fisher Diskau has a
trained voice, one that may sound pure in tone and
close to an instrument....but I'll take Big Joe
Turner's vocals on his early Atlantic albums any day!
I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just
"ain't nothin' but a party y'all" (George Clinton)
And Salinger dug it too - remember "Little Shirley
Beans" and references to early blues and swing in the
under published stories.
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