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I Hear You’re Mad About Brubeck…
I have to confess I’ve never really listened to Dave Brubeck. I’m sure I’ve heard his music without knowing who performed it. I did a Google search and the first video result was “Take Five,” which sounded pretty familiar. I’ve been meaning to listen to some of his stuff, but just never got around to it. I do know he was hugely influential on jazz and popular music.
A quote from here –
Brubeck believed that jazz presented the best face of America to the world.
“Jazz is about freedom within discipline,” he said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. “Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
“Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz. … And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.”
When was the last time you heard an artist or celebrity say anything like that?
Title of post from “New Frontier” by Donald Fagen, an avowed Brubeck fan.
When Black Friday Comes…
…I’ll rush right through the door
Running from aisle to aisle
Blue Light Special on the sales floor
They could rewrite the song from a stock market crash to sales-obsessed shoppers and not lose any of the cynicism.
Jacked Up Game
This is Game.
Jack likes girl. Jack is a dork and gets shot down. He goes home and starts getting his shit together. He meets the girl again, hits her attraction triggers, and takes her on an emotional rollercoaster ride. Is he still a dork? Well… yeah. But now he’s a dork who’s comfortable in his own skin and moves with assured confidence in himself.
A lot of it is played for laughs, but the core concept is still true – he got Game. He never manipulated her, he proved himself to her.
The fact that he can play drums probably doesn’t hurt, either.
Why It’s Here
No real reason, actually, just a place for me to write about whatever random stuff that pops into my head, the occasional look back at stupid things from my life, and music. So I might as well kick off my new hangout hitting all three with a forward looking song from my past.
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