Jazz

[Max Sawicky]

I tuned in for ten minutes and got tired of hearing
people say, "when xxx plays, it takes you to another
dimension, blah blah blah . . . "  It may be true,
but the words can't do justice to the feeling.

mbs


>In other words, can I still play the Ken Burns drinking game, which
>involves taking a swig every time somebody says "America"?
>
>Chuck0

The very subject matter doesn't give much latitude for this.  Sidney Bechet
(among others) had to flee to Paris to really feel at home as a performer;
Bix Beiderbecke was suffocated by his repressive Midwestern family; Duke
Ellington had to lease a private railroad car so he and his musicians
wouldn't be discriminated against while touring the South. You can't put too
much of a USA-all-the-way spin on material like that.