JSngry Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=mo...order=0&thold=0 Interviewer: Can you explain jazz? Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong. Interviewer: I don't understand. Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. Interviewer: Do you understand it? Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it. Interviewer: Are there any great jazz player alive today? Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Interviewer: What is syncopation? Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds. Interviewer: Now I really don't understand. Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well. Quote
RDK Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 You think that's funny? You oughta hear Charlie Parker explain baseball! Quote
BERIGAN Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 I wonder how famous Yogi is overseas.... Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 (edited) That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. I've never much cared for attempts to define jazz (or any other music) as they tend to obsess on making firm what to me are pretty liquid frontiers. But this definition I love. I don't think I've read a better one! Edited October 14, 2004 by Bev Stapleton Quote
catesta Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 (edited) I don't understand this. Some Background on Yogi... Some more... Edited October 14, 2004 by catesta Quote
couw Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 I don't understand this. Some Background on Yogi... Some more... eyyyy, even in the former Warsaw Pact states some people know of famous Yogi the Berra. They have a totally different sense of humour though (or so it seems) and don't use emoticons when displaying the dryest type. Quote
catesta Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 (edited) I figured as much, but thought just in case, I'd help a brotha out. You got me! Click here for more comments from me... B-) Edited October 14, 2004 by catesta Quote
couw Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 ...and by the by, the Dutch have a similar character in Johan Cruyff, the world famous (except in Disney land) football (soccer that is) player. He has expressed many such similar "wisdoms" that have flooded the dutch media. The most famous one probably being "Ieder nadeel heb zijn voordeel," which, in it's faulty grammar, means "every disadvantage has its advantage." Besides being a stupid remark coming from his mouth, it mirrors yet another Toa truth of the dialectic nature of all or nothing at all. Quote
catesta Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 it mirrors yet another Toa truth of the dialectic nature of all or nothing at all. Special Message For You Quote
BERIGAN Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 I don't understand this. Some Background on Yogi... Some more... My Favorite Yogism is on the second thread... "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." Just cracks me up....I know a more recent one (Last 10-15 years) was when a photographer was trying to take a close up of his face, and Yogi is turning to his left, or right, and the photographer says that he wants to take a shot straight on of his face, and Yogi said, "That's not my good side!" Quote
PHILLYQ Posted October 14, 2004 Report Posted October 14, 2004 Have you seen the AFLAC commercial with Yogi? I've seen it a hundred times and it still cracks me up! "It gets late early there" Yogi on rightfield in Yankee stadium. Quote
LAL Posted October 15, 2004 Report Posted October 15, 2004 Overseas: Folks not into baseball but into old cartoons may mistake him for Yogi Bear (from initial hearing of the name). Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 15, 2004 Report Posted October 15, 2004 I never understood that whole picnic basket thing... Quote
JSngry Posted October 15, 2004 Author Report Posted October 15, 2004 It's a bear thing. You wouldn't understand. Quote
DrJ Posted October 15, 2004 Report Posted October 15, 2004 Fantastic. I've never seen it so WELL explained (and I'm being serious, not facetious). Print that puppy out and hand it to anyone who is silly enough to ask you to "define" or "explain" jazz. BTW, few people know that "Yogi Berra" is actually an anagram of "Confucius"!!! Quote
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