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We went to an advertised estate sale. Found a few things for not much money - a couple of tools, nice crystal bud vases, etc. On the way home, we saw a yard sign pointing to another estate sale, not advertised. We thought, what the heck, let's check it out.
Wow.
I had never heard of this yester-year magazine. The realtor said we could have all three stacks for five bucks. We passed, and continued looking through the house. I came back to the room where the magazines were, and started to really look at them. Whoa, dude! Issues from 1901 to 1925! Pianists here may start to drool. :)
We scored probably 40 issues. Some I like for the covers, some I like for the subjects. Some, my wife likes for the cover art, and will probably frame them. :)
I apologize if some images are sideways. They should all be vertical. I can't figure out why some are wrong.
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I was at an audio swap meet a little over a week ago...... Some guy was giving out free cables..... So I grabbed a pair of interconnect cables..... They sounded so good, they're still in my high-efficiency system......
So I then researched the cables.... They were Core Power Technologies Linx Diamond Xtreme RCA interconnect cables..... They retailed for over a grand....
Sometimes you just get lucky.........
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"But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do you premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost." - Mark 3:11Jazz is Jizz. Trying to stop it is futile, and possibly too - downright destructive.
But it's interesting to hear the theorists *sputter* on about it, right ?
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As the bumper sticker put it of Werner H.
Heisenberg may or may not have slept here .
all the best,
mrh
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jazz is not speaking in tongues .
while it is often recorded , it is an interactive musical form that is often , but not always, defined by structure , so not easily understood , by a recorded moment, unlike thoughts conveyed in literature .
It's possible to "jazz up" any kind of music. Jazz might be more of an attitude than a style, and this "improvisational attitude" might be derived from the expressionistic attitudes displayed in places like Negro prayer meetings predating the display of "Jazz" in popular music...Hence, the scripture quotation.
Some would insist on linking the Jazz spirit to the rising popularity of syncopation in music during the late 19th/early 20th, but I do not. Because, syncopation galore can be found in the music of J.S. Bach. Nobody thought about "jazzing it up" back in Bach's day, as far as we know (at least not publicly).
After, during the "Classical" music era, more weight was given to improvisation but, for the most part, music was expected to be performed according to composer notation. A new type of musical freedom came into fashion after the "Romantic" era of classicism, during the "Jazz" era.
The pot had been bubbling for a while before "Jazz" music came into vogue, no doubt.
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I wish I could remember the classical composer who said he would not dream of writing the solo part for ( the great artist I can't remember) the composer might have been Beethoven, or some one as prominent ,because I came across the quotation back in the sixties as a musically poorly informed teenager.. I remember it because I wanted to give my teacher grief for having to play what was written. It appears I wasn't the easiest student.
I understand the point is pretty worthless without facts, but ti seems to imply that some of the classical parts were "head arraignments" such as used by the count Basie band in the early days, where no written arrangements were used , the knew the tune and played it the way it sounded as it should at the time, solo spots included.if what I suppose is correct, in an age where or could read of write the local language , it is pretty easy to imagine how improvisation in classical music was discarded as time passed . If to ever was there, I not a historian. just used to be a kid with a smart mouth.
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. . . the distinguishing features of Jazz are the swing rhythm and the "blues" scale. He notes that MANY other musical traditions employ syncopation and improvisation.
I tend to imagine that those rhythms and scales, along with certain signature sounds, are little more than convenient vehicles instinctively chosen for the purpose of releasing cathartic energy.To "Jazz" is to release pressure in a kind of abandonment, the opposite of oppressive orderliness.
If, in the course of all this, we stumble upon something musically entertaining and marketable ? Then "Hi-de-ho!" - all the better !
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I looked through them often, but I wasn't a piano player yet, nor would I ever be one of any competence, despite my mother's insistence that I take lesson, so I did for at least seven years. It's not easy when you don't have any talent, but try telling that to my mom.There are many copies for sale at various online sites and an entire website devoted to the magazine.
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Great post Mali
An Etude Magazine website. In 2025. Huh, who'd a ever thunk it?! Thanks! :)
Don't worry about not being a good pianist. Taking lessons, and practicing and learning are all good things, whether you pursue it or not. Good for your body, your mind, your brain.
I took piano lessons starting in third grade, for five years. Later, as a music major (trumpet), I was required to take two semesters of piano. Piece of cake!
I can still play a major scale with both hands, using proper fingering technique, and girls love that I can play "As Time Goes By". ;)
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My mom made me take lessons until I was a senior in high school. I virtually never practiced and normally just exasperated my teacher week after week, but I provided a little of her income, so she put up with me.
The trouble with my mom is that she had seen too many old movies, and thought I could become the life of parties, playing the piano for everybody while they sipped their cocktails. What a joke.
I eventually became a school teacher and could play enough to accompany the kids' "singing." I never could teach them to sing in tune, a great failing of American school children. Then I'd go to England and hear the choristers, and think, "Here's this, and I can't teach my kids how to sing Yankee Doodle in tune." No doubt another failure of mine.
I just wasn't as interested in those "oldie" performers and performances at that time as I am now! ;-)
I wonder if the PDF's of those old Etude magazines might be available somewhere today.
Yes, I have run across "The Etude" while researching one thing or another.
As L.P. Hartley wrote:
"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."
Amen.
I'm very interested in reading about "the jazz problem" in 1924.
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The movie "The Talented Mr. Ripley" starts as a jazz problem.
See link
Thanks for that!
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