Re: New Dutch Prodigy!

"clay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <clay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

Surprising and acrobatically, but I fear music is more then this.
I hope this young boy has his brain and soul connected to his
fingers. If so then be warned :-)

The thing is we're judging his playing solely by this clip, which if
you ask me is really, really impressive on its own, but my guess is he
has other skills besides this. A few weeks ago I brought up the point
on the "America's Been Tough On Jazz" thread that more and more young
players are playing jazz than ever before, which brought out the usual
crew of hand wringing worriers lamenting that there were more jazzers
in 1945, jazz is declining, etc. Let's face it, when you have more
people on the planet (estimated currently at 6,502,053,595) coupled
with widespread jazz listening and education you're going to have a
more accomplished players just by virtue of sheer numbers. Not all will
be geniuses, but my guess is good young players will likely outnumber
us "old guys" by at least two to one in the next few years.

If you have a look at the gnutella or edonkey networks then I
could get jealous about the free access to information these
youngsters have. Ok its not legal, but they have access and they
use it.

Very much of the instruction videos from REH, Hot Licks, Homespun,
Rittor etc. with all kinds of guitar players, Jazz, Rock, Blues
etc. can be downloaded for no cost. Gigabytes of music, instuction
material and jam tracks, almost all of the Jamey Aebersold series
and many other stuff is there at their fingertipps.

This might be one of the reasons for the raising technical skills
of the joung musicians nowadays.

I remember 25 years ago I just had no money to buy the expensive
instruction books and no other source around then the records from
the flea market, an expensive LP every now and then and a lot of
tape copies in horrible quality.

You say I'm an old fart? Seems so, I'm 42.


Sincerely
charlie
--
Karl E. Maij
http://www.bebop.ch/rmmgj
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