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RE: Seriously?

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on August 26, 2012 at 18:52:57

In Reply to: RE: Seriously? posted by josh358 on August 26, 2012 at 18:01:35:

You are right that these things get very drawn out and so I am done rehashing. And if you took my comment on back peddling to mean you were lying that was a misunderstanding. That was about the logic of your argument not the truthfulness about why you posted the wrong arrangement.

You did claim that Yuja Wang's rhythms were "wrong" and you claimed they were lacking in sophistication. With those claims I still take issue and I still think that using a completely wrong arrangement under-minds the argument. So on that we disagree.

Paul A. was more aggressive in his attacks on the merits of the performance. He compared the performance to that of a junior high school level musician. I beleive both of you questioned her familiarity with the jazz genre. Paul also suggested that Yuja should have run this by an actual jazz musician so as to be told how bad it was. Well....I happen to know a few jazz musicians and so I ran it by one.

I sent a link of Yuja Wang's performance to a Jazz musician I know in New Orleans. Sasha Masakowski. her dad and her teacher is Steve Masakowski.

A little background on Sasha and Steve

"Sasha’s musicality can be seen as a direct influence of her mother and father. Ulrike and Steve Masakowski are both virtuoso professional musicians. Ulrike, her mother, is a concert pianist and author of highly acclaimed piano-method series of books and publications, “Reeka Rules.” Steve Masakowski, world-renowned 7-string jazz guitarist, has done two albums under the Blue Note label and toured with the likes of Bobby McFerrin and Dianne Reeves, among others. Steve is currently the Coca-Cola endowed chair of the Jazz Studies department at the University of New Orleans and plays with one of New Orleans’ greatest modern jazz quartets, Astral Project.

Since beginning her career as a professional jazz musician in her early 20s, Sasha Masakowski has received vast acclaim from critics, fellow musicians, and general audiences alike throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her training from NOCCA as well as UNO's Jazz Studies Program have helped shape her cutting-edge, sophisticated style and the ease with which she presents herself on stage and captivates audiences worldwide."

http://www.sashamasakowski.com/html/about.php

Here is what Sasha said about Yuja's rendition of Tea for Two

"Wow!! Thats amazing- sounds beautiful! Art Tatum is one of my favorite pianists of all time, did you know he learned to play from transcribing player-roll pieces that were recorded by two people when he was a child? Thats why when you listen to him play solo piano it sounds like two people.


she did a wonderful job!"

I see no problem with you or Paul not liking it. That is a matter of taste. But when you guys go beyond that, which both of you do, you both make some claims that seem to run quite contrary to "expert" opinion. I see no mention of wrong rhythms or a lack of sophistication or any of the other objective claims of wrong playing on the part of Yuja Wang by Sasha. In fact she uses some pretty big superlatives don't you think? "wow" "amazing" "wonderful" "beautiful job." And Art Tatum is one of her favorite pianists of all time....



I think if you guys had left it at not liking it none of this would have gone on. I'm certainly not going to argue personal taste.

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