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I run through the pop hit playlists and dig around if I like an artist. I listen to weird genres like EDM big band stuff. I was floored by Dua Lipa’s live singing on Amazon the other day. No auto tune. I was just floored. A kid with a kid‘s sensibilities, sure, but what, you want these kids to be Socrates? I found Billie Eilish’s music fascinating as I became familiar with it. Camila Cabello has a stratospherically wonderful voice. She can do a dead-on Billie Eilish imitation BTW. A lot of these kids are getting it done. I am not much of a musician but I have enough chops to know what is going on in the music by ear, and keep a guitar by my side to do so or play along a little, or I’ll walk over to my piano and pick it apart a little. I still feel the magic and the joy in it. I like turn of the 20th century pop music, I like classical. But I try to keep young ears and I try not to make a habit of passing judgment. What does it matter if it will be considered great in 30 years or 100 years?
This is the golden age of recorded music in some ways, so much of it is laid out before us by the streaming services. To move the conversation into a jazz context, my advice is be like Dexter Gordon and Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, keep young ears, and less so like Louis Armstrong or Wynton Marsalis, judgmental.
This is the golden age of recorded music in some ways, so much of it is laid out before us by the streaming services. To move the conversation into a jazz context, my advice is be like Dexter Gordon and Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, keep young ears, and less so like Louis Armstrong or Wynton Marsalis, judgmental.
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