"When god is around the angels play Bach, when he is elsewhere they play Mozart."

That one always made me smile. I think Mozart holds the keys to joy and satisfaction in classical music, all 12 of them.

Believe it or not I studied music at college. Jazz became my thing as a result. I feel that to some extent the Miles Davis generation reinvented music just as Bach laid down the Western world's accepted musical norms in the first instance. Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue" is clealry a work of genius and inspiration not to be missed.

That said, I do enjoy a lot of what Alan so quaintly calls pop. At just 38 years I'm much to old for the most recent popular reinventions - garage, jungle, rap, hip hop (no doubt all already out of date) but then this is what mature people would have said of Miles Davis in the 50's and 60's....

The music industry is in a mess, a very big mess spelling financial ruin for many record labels. This is becuase quick profit has become the sinlge factor defining musical success. Music is, or at least should be, art. Art and the quick profit culture cannot easily co-exist.

Incidentally Paul, Rick Wakeman of the band YES is a hugely talented pianist. His 'pop' version of George Gershwin's "Rahpsody in Blue" is something to behold. Hmmm, now then Gerswhin, surely the genius of the early popular song? Or would that be Cole Porter? Arrrrgh......

(Kat - check the writers of the Ella Fitzgerald songs you like best - Gershwin? Porter? Of course!)

Then there's Lennon and McCartney and Paul Simon, how does one choose???.........

There's my ranting then (or should that be 'raving'?) all done :)

  Loz

The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing {Never give up}

    Loz
  • Life isn't always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes of playing a poor hand well.