Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: using laptops for music"

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Hilarious. I wonder what the looper corollary to that quote is? :)

Miles said a lot of crazy things...I have some MP3s of him, one of which
he's talking about how he could tell whether a jazz band was black or white
without seeing them....he said he could just tell...they played and how it
felt. Then there are the rumors, probably untrue these days since I hope
we're all color blind and musicians have cross-polinated, that back when
jazz got started, caucasians tend to play ahead of the beat, where as the
african-american jazzers played behind the beat...more relaxed rather than
uptight and rushed. This is what I like about Scofield's playing...he is
loose as a goose, man...just lingering behind the beat a bit. I love that
feel.

Kris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>

Of course, Miles also said that if you look at your audience at a gig
and there's no women there, your shit is dead....

TravisH

On 10/27/05, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> > "Hell, any science grad student will tell you that the majority of
> > experiments fail..."
>
> yeah, that's a good thing in science as it turns out from a learning
> standpoint, and in experimenal music too in my opinion. I recall a quote
> from Miles Davis, something to the effect that if you aren't making
> mistakes, you aren't playing jazz.