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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Wot is jazz?
From: "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:14:01 -0500
one incomplete...

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Hudson
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 9:30 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Wot is jazz?

What is "....half a masters....." ?

jh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Wot is jazz?


> You have rung my bell, as one that has spent his life focused as you will
> on
> music. Yes, I have some qualifications to speak,as I hae a bachelors
> degree
> and a half a masters in applied music. The Julliard school, which as music
> schools is only one of many good ones, and one with a reputation that may
> well outweigh it's abilities, has a jazz program that has equality among
> allother music programs. I can tell you without any fear that of all the
> musicians I have known, The jazz musicians are at the highest level of
> technical abilities. Murray Perahia, of whom I have a very high opinion,
> couldn't hold a candle technically to Oscar Peterson or Art Tatum. Singers
> are particularly notable, as Jazz singers can often hit a pitch more
> accurately the first time than opera singers, who frequently have a
> reputation of sliding into notes routinely.
>
> If you don't like one kind of music, that's OK, I probably don't like some
> of what you do, but really, don't make what appear to me as uneducated and
> uninformed judgements. To hold the Julliard school up as the be-all and
> end-all is thoroughly uninformed and uneducated. The Julliard school
> considers it an equal.
>
> Bill Pearce
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: John Hudson
> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 7:21 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Wot is jazz?
>
> To what extend does the Julliard School treat jazz as a major and serious
> aspect of a rigorous academic music education ? Compared to such towering
> pinnacles in the classical world of the piano such as Murray  Perahia,
> Radu
> Lupu, and Nelson Freire whereabouts do any jazz players stand?
>
> jh
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Wot is jazz?
>
>
>> Well, Brian, it is indeed music, as one with a degree in music can
>> attest.
>> When asked, I always say, "Jazz is regular music with Tourettes." If you
>> equate Jazz with noise, you should come down among the real people.
>>
>> Bill Pearce
>>
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Brian Swale
>> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 6:18 PM
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] (OM) OT Wot is jazz?
>>
>> I asked two questions on facebook. To spice things up a bit, I repeat
>> them
>> here
>> ... Statement, then questions ...
>>
>>> I heard on Radio News that there is a Jazz Festival in Tauranga over
>>> Easter holiday. They said there are 600 performers. The word "music" was
>>> used in the item. To my mind, two serious questions remain to be
>>> answered,
>>> which are: "Is Jazz actually music?" "And if so, how so?"
>>
>> Just because musical instruments are used to make a noise doesn't mean
>> that
>> the noise can be called "music" !
>>
>> Brian Swale.
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