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Walter Cronkite died today at the age of 92. I remember him well. When I was a kid every night at dinner my parents would have the CBS news on. Then one night when I was 16 years old he came on and said the war in Viet Nam was unwinable. I was already registered for the draft, and I was used to seeing the clips of the helicoptors and the kids who were soldiers running through fields getting shot at. But when Walter Cronkite said that it had real resonance. My father got very pissed off, he though the army would make a man out of me and I don't think he ever forgave Walter Cronkite. But it was at that time that I knew that there was no way in hell I was going to get drafted come hell or high water. I liked Walter Cronkite. There was true integrity, journalistic integrity, about the man. Hard to imagine isn't it. "And that's the way it is..."

I'm sure there has to be a least one in there somewhere. Give me a minute to check and I'll get back to you.

I've spent the last two nights in the studio with my band recording my CD. It's completely fucked up. It's great. There's all kind of things wrong with it, it's sloppy and fucked up and wild and it sounds like a bunch of drunk musicians playing in a whorehouse band recorded it, BUT IT'S FUCKING GREAT! The thing is that people are going to get hung up about how sloppy and weird it all is. BUT THAT'S OKAY! I wouldn't expect, or want, any other response. The record sucks. It stinks (based on the roughs I've just listened to) but it's great. It's jazz music from the dumpster behind the 24-hour Mini-Mart. It's totally fucked up. Seriously, we're not going to win any awards for the best-played-cleanly-executed jazz record ever made. This is some desperate shit. I don't know why it ended up sounding like that and I don't care. It's the worst thing I've ever played on, and it's also the best.

I see. I had no idea, but then I don't know a damn thing, really, about classical music. I just love Beethoven, particularly the piano concertos. Thank you for that, Ron.

Sorry, what is it? I can't make out anything on the tiny picture. Here's all the info: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...rm=frooglemusic Thank you for that HG. One question: Cleveland? I mean...nothing against Cleveland, I just wouldn't have ever thought that Cleveland would have, you know... I was in Cleveland once, maybe that's why I can't imagine anything good coming from there.

"Passage." Where exactly does this passage occur? Sonatas are, you know, sort of divided up into sections, like.

Sorry, what is it? I can't make out anything on the tiny picture.

And there are only nine of those. I don't claim to know shit about classical music, but I love the piano concertos and my question was sincere. I don't understand the sarcasm.

There are only five of them.

Thank you Shrdlu. By the way, my real name is Jay. I'm listening to Julius Katchen and the London Symphony Orchestra playing the C minor right now and it all sounds rather sloppy to me. There are definitely tempo issues. Not to mention that the recording itself leaves something to be desired.

I want to own the very best recordings of this music available on CD. I have rather a hodge-podge of them now, but I know there have to be "definitive" recordings that I'm not aware of. Oh, and I don't like the Brendels much at all. I'd rather hear the real cadenzas. Suggestions, please?

No, not at all. Just getting a feel for the place.

This is all really...weird. Why are people still posting to this thread? What is it that's being discussed here? Weird. I've been reading all this for the past couple of days and that's the only word that comes to mind. Weird.

Are you kidding? It's going great! Got a rehearsal with my band tonight, gigs are starting to get lined up, and we do nothing but 100% original jazz music. Recording a CD this summer. The music is already getting notice on the internet. Meanwhile I'm still working as a freelance musician, the money is good, the wife is lovely and we're both excellent cooks. Obama's won 10 in a row. Life is wonderful. You?

This is in reference to a little "essay" I put up in the musician forum about how I was using open-voiced quartal harmonies in the music I write. I never intended it to mean that I had discovered any new territory. I thought there might be some other composers here who would care to talk about their approaches and that we might get into a discussion about composing jazz. That's all. At the end of my post I clearly stated that there was nothing new in what I was talking about. The responses were rather dismissive, and a couple were just plain silly, referring to Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. This quote above seems quite mean-spirited, and coupled with the join-in-or-fuck-off post and a suggestion to make use of the ignore function, I get the impression that this is a common occurance here. It's a strange discussion board, and one that I don't find very appealing.