Very well said, Alex; as usual, you are more of a gentleman than I. Ok, perhaps as O-10 says it is time for "down and dirty". Let’s get "down and dirty"; shall we?
The psychology behind some of this is truly fascinating if more than a little twisted. Here we have an individual that is so personally invested, for egotistical reasons, in being some sort of authority on the subject of jazz that he completely misses the most important and fundamental ingredient in the music: the creative spirit which, at its core, is about openness of mind to new ideas. But, no, the fantasy jazz-reality based on mistaken or incomplete ideas that he has constructed for himself and has become such a huge part of his personal identity cannot possibly have been flawed all these years. Facing this possibility is so difficult that he is willing to destroy the very forum that he started for sharing and discussing the music that he claims to love so much. And destroy it he will by insulting and alienating those who have a different point of view from his and which all evidence shows is much closer to the truth than his point of view. Better to destroy it than to have to deal with having been mistaken about anything that has to do with his personality calling card..."Aficionado". And, yes, all this bulls#% IS one of the main reasons that there aren’t more contributors to this thread. Not that, as he claims, as yet another example of the need to stroke his ego, it is that there are only a select few that have the "insight" or "knowledge" or open window to the "soul" of jazz; a select few that will be smaller and and smaller in numbers until this thread is no more.
O-10, IT WAS you who started this most recent squabble and proceeded to feed it. You asked a question and then proceeded to insult and demean those who factually and in a good spirited way expressed a different point of view from yours. You then, as is usual, proceeded to create smoke screens around your reasons and justifications for your divisive behavior by making statements about things that have nothing to do with the original questions; and you continue to do so. I could address these point for point, but not only am I tired of this, but its all pretty obvious if you just go back over the exchanges. As far as I am concerned you owe everyone here an apology. As always, all this in the hope that this thread can be better than this.
The psychology behind some of this is truly fascinating if more than a little twisted. Here we have an individual that is so personally invested, for egotistical reasons, in being some sort of authority on the subject of jazz that he completely misses the most important and fundamental ingredient in the music: the creative spirit which, at its core, is about openness of mind to new ideas. But, no, the fantasy jazz-reality based on mistaken or incomplete ideas that he has constructed for himself and has become such a huge part of his personal identity cannot possibly have been flawed all these years. Facing this possibility is so difficult that he is willing to destroy the very forum that he started for sharing and discussing the music that he claims to love so much. And destroy it he will by insulting and alienating those who have a different point of view from his and which all evidence shows is much closer to the truth than his point of view. Better to destroy it than to have to deal with having been mistaken about anything that has to do with his personality calling card..."Aficionado". And, yes, all this bulls#% IS one of the main reasons that there aren’t more contributors to this thread. Not that, as he claims, as yet another example of the need to stroke his ego, it is that there are only a select few that have the "insight" or "knowledge" or open window to the "soul" of jazz; a select few that will be smaller and and smaller in numbers until this thread is no more.
O-10, IT WAS you who started this most recent squabble and proceeded to feed it. You asked a question and then proceeded to insult and demean those who factually and in a good spirited way expressed a different point of view from yours. You then, as is usual, proceeded to create smoke screens around your reasons and justifications for your divisive behavior by making statements about things that have nothing to do with the original questions; and you continue to do so. I could address these point for point, but not only am I tired of this, but its all pretty obvious if you just go back over the exchanges. As far as I am concerned you owe everyone here an apology. As always, all this in the hope that this thread can be better than this.