on 6/28/02 5:09 PM, Ryan Novak at ryan_novak@yahoo.com wrote:
I've never been sure actually- I guess I always assumed most could not play music full time. But the ones who can have got to be really big shit to make it...
Well, that's truer of someone like Dave or Uri than of someone like david Murray, who doesn't have the kind of technical skill to which I think you're referring
well I guess proportionally it's all the same- there are tons of rock and pop acts not getting anywhere. Well, then that's why some free-jazz improv sucks then I guess.
I think a lot of why anything sucks is that the proportionate number of gifted and original practitioners in any medium is always real slim. otherwise there'd be ten Thelonious Monk's.
And that's it- success (at whatever level suits them) makes them conservative, not age.
Depends on who. Max Roach is still Max Roach. Issac Hayes is still Issac hayes. sh