Jazz for aficionados

O-10, first sorry for all the typos. Back on the ground now. Care to join me 😉?

Unfortunately, you responded as I expected you would; although I keep hoping. I don’t know what it is you don’t understand about what we are saying; but you just don’t, you don’t get it. Perhaps the concept is too abstract for you. You are wedded to this romantic notion of what the process is and you are simply wrong. You have much to learn about these topics and prefer to live in your self -created reality even in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. You have a real soft spot for the time you spent with your friend and I think that’s a beautiful thing. However, I would respectfully suggest that you are doing him (as a musician), his craft and his memory (?) a disservice by holding on to these mistaken notions. As concerns your friend: since you have provided so little information about him, based on what you have provided I can only conclude that either it really was only that summer that he didn’t practice (which if you think about it would not be surprising given that he was living in someone else’s apt), or that he never reached his full potential because any artist that doesn’t practice his craft simply can’t. As to how all this relates to this thread, I think this thread and the seriousness of its topic deserve better.  Did you google Coltrane/practice? 

Interesting reading for anyone who would like to learn more about the subject.  Of course, anyone can choose to shut down and deem it simply "Martian talk" and go back to their own world of artificial (but subjective) reality.  From one of the best jazz pianists on the scene today:

http://www.tedrosenthal.com/practice.htm

Frogman, I stated that was the Summer he was in my apartment. I'm sure he practiced morning noon and night in order to get so proficient with such a complex instrument, also his mother taught him, that's in his bio. He was playing before he started school and in the church.

I was talking to a musician friend of mine, telling him how good my other friend was.

"He was good, but he wasn't that good", was his reply. I'll show him I thought; that's when I bought every record I could find of him as leader or sideman. None of those records had the music he was playing that summer. He died not long after he left my apartment, and none of that music was recorded; consequently everything I have uttered about him is "moot", since I can not proof anything about the music he was playing. Of course his musician friends knew he was at my apartment that Summer, but I have no proof what so ever in regard to the music.

You can conclude this any way you like, and we can call it concluded.


Enjoy the music.

O-10:

You don't have a leg to stand on.   ALL performers and entertainers practice their craft.  Even stand up comedians.

Your friend was just a Local guy.  Maybe he didn't practice because he knew his audience and their level of musical appreciation / sophistication.   Had he been trying to have a career in a p[lace like NYC, he would have practiced, or been on welfare.  

Medium-sized  fish in a very small pond comes to mind.  

Cheers

Rok, your post is total "wack". He wasn't a local musician, and he was still getting checks from "Blue Note", why don't you read all of my posts, and when you read them, if you read them, go slowly and you might get the real picture and not the picture you want to get.

Well this is not a quiz show.  (what's my line?)   Tell us who he is.   Then we will know.  Checks from Blue Note?  That's a big time label.  You name him, and we will know if he practiced or not.

Cheers