"Difficult"?

[Henry Musikar]

Hoisted on your own petard: Bird IS difficult. Helps to know all the 
tunes he touchs on and have enough experience with jazz to know where 
a line would go if someone else were playing it. And even then, you 
have to let go, just like people recommend for reading Joyce and TRP. 
When I was a boy, I couldn't stand Bird - too strange and 
complicated.

On 22 May 97 at 9:44, David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> wrote:
<snip>
> For a comparison, recall that in Charlie Parker's time, much of his
> music was considered extremely "difficult."  If you listen to it
> now, though, it's very accessible, though not a whit less complex
> and remarkable than it was in the 50's.
<snip>

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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