McCintic McClintoc

[David Morris]

>From: Don Corathers David's observation (as I read it) that he is a 
>representative of the inanimate, a "mechanical man."

Correction:  Terance's observation.  I only echoed.

>Seems to me that jazz is about the essential jism of life and is not 
>accessible to anybody who is not, at least at the moment of playing it or 
>receiving it, completely human.

The mechanical black man.  It does seem antithetical, but...  Jazz is (or at 
least was) a black-art.  Remember the Rosebud Ballroom?  Remember Marcel?  I 
think Marcel's fatal flaw was not caring enough.  Would you if you were...

Jazz is essentially African with a little injection of western melody.  If 
there is a human music it must be African.

McC's music is not clearly anything but unclear.  He's got all the jazz 
names, but only his music counts so far.  Does he have motives?  What are 
his loves?  Is he maybe a prophet?  He might only foretell, embody, 
represent, but not BE.  Sometimes prophets need to be actors.

DM
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