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Elaborate? I don't get what you're taliking about. nt

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Rick W

In Reply to: RE: Today's World posted by oldmkvi on March 24, 2022 at 09:19:05

nt

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Just that her album is "About" Family and Self Acceptance, instead of - oldmkvi 10:01:29 03/24/22 (4)
Musical Ideas.
It really bugs me, I' m sorry to say.
It's the Way these days from the Younger Players.
Music has to be About something.
I guess just being music doesn't cut it anymore.
Or maybe it's just Marketing.
I hope she doesn't record an album with
Megan Thee Stallion, whatever That means...
OK, end of incomprehensable Rant.
- Actually I do think your Big Band CDs are About Something- - oldmkvi 10:44:11 03/24/22 (3)
  Your Musical Ideas, Imagination, and Skill at expressing them.
  That's all I need...
  - Not a big deal to me. Easy to ignore and just listen. - Rick W 09:35:33 03/25/22 (2)
    Have no idea if its just marketing for Aldana's recording or what. Most recordings/tunes have titles including my own. In my case, as I said in the liner notes of one of my big band cd's, I had a vibe in mind when I wrote some of the charts but whatever the music evokes and wherever it takes an individual listener is fine with me. I'd actually prefer people to listen first and look at titles later. Its quite possible that a listener will get some emotional response that's completely unrelated to the title. I often title music after I write it.
    I do know where you're comin' from. Sometimes I feel the kind of explanation of inspiration or intent for instrumental music can be stilted or unnecessary or even just bullshit created by a label. I just listen.
    
    Edits: 03/25/22
    - RE: Not a big deal to me. Easy to ignore and just listen. - Cpwill 18:18:52 03/25/22 (0)
      It's like what the art critic, Leo Steinberg, wrote in Other Criteria about modern art of the period. Once an artist releases art into the art world, an artist's intent no loner matters. They become merely part of the art world.
      
      Ciao,
      
      "Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once." - John Coltrane.
      
      Cpwill
    - RE: Not a big deal to me. Easy to ignore and just listen. - oldmkvi 13:37:39 03/25/22 (0)
      I guess the thing for me is They are Telling You what to think, feel, etc about their music.
      It also can seem to inflate the Meaning of the Music into something bigger and important than mere tunes.
      I like that you Ignore that stuff and listen.
      Stravinsky and Miles would ask at Sessions,
      "How does it Sound?",
      not, does my Self-Love come through here?
      How about my Fear of, then Acceptance of Death?
      It's ALL in that C6 voicing at Letter B...
      I'm pretty sure I won't need to bring this up again...!

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