"Difficult"?

[fuhrel at ccrouter.ccsn.nevada.edu]

     Perhaps Ornette is still too difficult though Bird has been accepted, 
     despite Ornette's recent induction into the American Academy.  I must 
     admit I find stretches of GR indeed difficult, though I am able to 
     deal with Finnegans Wake usually successfully.
     
     Bob Fuhrel


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Subject: Re: "Difficult"?
Author:   "Henry Musikar" <gravity at nicom.com> at SMTP-CCSN
Date:    5/22/97 1:18 PM


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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