Makes sense to me.

[Blue Stew]

Who's on 1st?
mike


On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:14:49 -0700, Fred Dabney <fdabney@nmsu.edu> wrote:
> Forwarded from a friend of  friend...
>
> Yogi Berra on jazz:
>
> Interviewer:  "What do you expect is in store for the future of jazz
> guitar?"
>
> Yogi: "I'm thinkin' there'll be a group of guys who've never met  talkin'
> about it all the time.."
>
> 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 players 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.  Some
> would kill for it.
>
> 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.
>
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