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Barney rule 346/19/2023 A genius.īut he was a junkie from the age of 16 until two years before his alcohol-related death at age 34. And he encouraged attendees to listen to lots of Charlie Parker.Īnd who wouldn’t? Anybody with even a minimal degree of refined music appreciation understands that Parker was one of the twentieth century’s towering musical figures in any genre, and, in fact, a great artist from any form of expression. Now, the organizer of the workshop, one of America’s foremost jazz educators, was a clean-living guy, to the extent that he’d work diatribes against cigarette smoking into his holdings-forth on ear training and theory. There were lots of kids as well as adults who attended it, and I happened to pass a young guy in the hall who was wearing a Charlie Parker tee shirt, that I’m pretty sure he purchased in the workshop’s bookstore. I sometimes reflect on an observation I made one day at a jazz improvisation workshop I attended for five years in a row a couple of decades ago. I discuss the worlds of painting, literature and other fields, but, in specifically addressing music, I made this observation: The February 6 post from this year, “Art and Dissolution,” covers creative expression generally and grapples with the question of how we’re to reconcile the contributions of universally recognized greats with their wayward personal lives. It might be helpful to some folks to have them gathered in one place. There are a number of essays having to do with music in the archive. (Your thoughts on what I might do are welcome.) Maybe even create a sectioned-off front page that could direct readers to areas of particular interest. I guess I could start by making use of the tags function. I occasionally consider categorizing Precipice posts in some fashion.
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