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Vladimir Horowitz was mesmerized and blown away by Art Tatum’s talent and would at times go to hear him play and sit listening- dumbfounded. Horowitz supposedly said if Tatum took up classical piano he would quit.
Art Tatum was a one of a kind genius musician.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Well I guess there are some in Europe who will never be satisfied with America's definition of culture. Perhaps we should sweep through and remove all those jazz and blues records. We wouldn't want to sully and pollute their minds with that trash, would we?
Anyway, here's a fun little romp which you might enjoy. I take particular pleasure in it not only because Richie Castellano does all the parts but also because he produced this clip using my very favorite professional video editing software, Sony Vegas Pro.
If you love Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" this will thrill you.
NOTE: Mr. Castellano is now enjoying a stint as a guitarist for the newly reformed group "Blue Oyster Cult", also a very uncultured bunch ;-)
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
Well I guess there are some in Europe who will never be satisfied with America's definition of culture. Perhaps we should sweep through and remove all those jazz and blues records. We wouldn't want to sully and pollute their minds with that trash, would we?
I have no objection to jazz and blues being ingredients in the Salad of Artistic Taste. They have their place in those moments of ennui when one is not fully up to appreciating Bach's Art of the Fugue.
What I do violently object to is when these, and even lower forms of rhythmic noise, become the only elements of the acoustic environment -- as is all too often the case in the ersatz culture of America. It is like eating a salad consisting entirely of garlic!
Rather than such a hellish eventuality, I would wish these otherwise refreshing musical genres hunted down, torn to shreds, extirpated from the face of the earth, and all memory of them forever lost!!
Let them know their place -- far down from the head of the table -- and all will be well !!
Well I guess there are some in Europe who will never be satisfied with America's definition of culture. Perhaps we should sweep through and remove all those jazz and blues records. We wouldn't want to sully and pollute their minds with that trash, would we?
I have no objection to jazz and blues being ingredients in the Salad of Artistic Taste. They have their place in those moments of ennui when one is not fully up to appreciating Bach's Art of the Fugue.
What I do violently object to is when these, and even lower forms of rhythmic noise, become the only elements of the acoustic environment -- as is all too often the case in the ersatz culture of America. It is like eating a salad consisting entirely of garlic!
Rather than such a hellish eventuality, I would wish these otherwise refreshing musical genres hunted down, torn to shreds, extirpated from the face of the earth, and all memory of them forever lost!!
Let them know their place -- far down from the head of the table -- and all will be well !!
The Art of the FooGoo, isn't that where you dip veggies into melted cheese?
I have to correct you, a bulb of garlic, with the tip sliced off and butter applied, roasted in one o' them pottery roasters, is finger lickin' good even without the rest of the salad.
(I can't believe I dreamed you into saying all that overly judgmental stuff!)
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
I have no objection to jazz and blues being ingredients in the Salad of Artistic Taste. They have their place in those moments of ennui when one is not fully up to appreciating Bach's Art of the Fugue.
What I do violently object to is when these, and even lower forms of rhythmic noise, become the only elements of the acoustic environment -- as is all too often the case in the ersatz culture of America. It is like eating a salad consisting entirely of garlic!
Rather than such a hellish eventuality, I would wish these otherwise refreshing musical genres hunted down, torn to shreds, extirpated from the face of the earth, and all memory of them forever lost!!
Let them know their place -- far down from the head of the table -- and all will be well !!
That would qualify as possibly the most foppish, effete, elitist, smarmy, naive and narrowminded view of blues and jazz I have ever heard outside a Steve Bonta tirade penned in a John Birch Society textbook or, maybe a Kefauver hearing, were it not for the fact that it illuminates my point even better.
I am sorry that you have little or no actual experience with either of those genres, Numan. You're the poorer for it, and your comment proves it all too well.
Fortunately for the rest of us, living, dead and yet to be, both genres are immortal now. Yes, even your progeny ten generations hence will be marveling at the depth of human emotion contained in both.
And when art so eloquently portrays depth of human emotion, that sir, is culture.
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