Re: 14 year old's take on Martino

On 6/9/06 3:03 PM, in article
GMGdnRtsQI6AbRTZnZ2dnUVZ_rGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Roger Houston"
<houstonr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

pmfan57 wrote:


But to cite a young person as evidence that the music probably isn't
really very good? I'm sure lots of jazz musicians would have elicited
the same comments from a young person.


It's been a long time, but I had a 14 year-old daughter once.

Here's a handy tip. If she has some music that particularly annoys you,
indicate an interest in it. Ask her to play it for you. Hum it,
whistle it, better yet, noodle a few bars of it on your guitar.

She'll never listen to it again -- at least not within earshot of you.

When you're 14, Dad's music totally sucks, no matter the genre.

Well, here's the weird thing: For the most part she likes a lot of the music
that I like. I have three daughters. I remember when they were little a game
they invented was getting some flashlights, turning out all the lights in
the living room, and bouncing around on the furniture with their flashlights
while listening to James Brown. When the youngest was about four, I
overheard a conversation she was having with a friend:
Friend: Do you like Charlie Brown?
Boadicea: Yeah. (sings) I feel good, da da da da da da da!
It was a proud moment for me as a father.
My eldest daughter had a really fine vocal jazz teacher when she was in high
school, and it sparked in her a love of Ella and Sarah Vaughn and so on, in
addition to the hippy, reggae-ish surf culture stuff she seems to be really
into now.
The 14 year old is the youngest, and if I find one of my Beatles CDs or
African guitar CDs missing, I'll look in her room first.
I actually like some of the new stuff my kids enjoy as well. There's this
band called Metric that the 14 year old is into that I don't mind.
I mean, what can they listen to that will really bug a guy from the Hendrix
generation? My parents had to put up with the Zappa and Hendrix I'd put on
when what they really liked was Harry Belafonte; a big jump. At our house
it's more often been a case of "Dad, could you turn it down?" than the other
way around.
On Fridays when my band, The Idjits, meet in my garage, the kids usually try
to be out, although they say we're not bad "for a bunch of old guys". We're
pretty loud. We play some things that might be called "jazz" (Work Song,
Song for My Father, Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby, and others), but we
really like playing (an Idjit version of) Voodoo Child, and that might be a
bit much for the delicate sensibilities of the new generation.

.

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