Sound like what we have here is a bunch of 50-something white guys playing
an Asian instrument (namely, the Shakuhachi) under the heavy influence of
black jazz musicians (Trane/Lateef).... what could be better?
Great time and place to be alive...
Brett "Bud" Breitwieser (brettb@rajah.com)
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-----Original Message-----
From: kyoung@MAILBOX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
[mailto:kyoung@MAILBOX.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU]On Behalf Of Karl Young
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:56 PM
To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Coltrane poster?
Sorry for cluttering up everybody's mailbox but I couldn't resist noting
a resonance with Dan's comments. As another 50 year old shakuhachi
student, it was most certainly listening to Trane, Yusef, Ornette,
Dolphy et. al. that opened up and prepared my ears for the bombshell of
first hearing Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky (experiences like that have
only happened a couple of times for me, e.g. hearing Purple Haze for the
first time). I commend Dan for "rescuing" himself re. having the
intuition to ask his mom to pick up "albums by black jazz players". In
this most multicultural of towns, San Francisco, I still had to be
"rescued" from Getz, Mulligan, Baker,... (all of whom I still love to
listen to) by a high school friend who turned me on to Trane - and as
they say, I've never looked back...
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