What are jazzmen really like??

[dusken]

Oh, I forgot Frank Gambale.

[dusken]

First of all, ardenik, you have to relax and not take everything I say so seriously and personally. Secondly, I was not bad company. As a matter of fact I did not want to stick around long enough to be company.

[ardenik]

i left out a couple myself.. Barry Harris (pianist, one of the last remaining from the original NYC bebop scene of the 1940s. played with Bird quite a bit, appears on albums by legends like Lee Morgan, Coleman Hawkins, Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt & tons of others...), Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabbyr (Dizzy Gillespie's drummer for many years)..

i know Nasyr really well. he taught most of my drummer buddies. he's the one that gave Horacio Hernandez his first professional drumset back in Cuba when he was just a prodigy kid playing on boxes..

You tell me these people are assh0les, u don't know anything of what you're talking about man.... nothing at all

[ardenik]

Most of them are assh0les. There are very few accomplished jazz musicians that are not.

Now being a jazz musician, you are calling me one of two things: a) unaccomplished; b) an assh0le.

Seeing as how you have not the slightest clue about how accomplished a musician i am, we can safely dismiss a)....

& seeing as how you have never met me & have no clue whether i'm an assh0le or not, we can safely dismiss b).......

Seeing as how we can safely dismiss a) AND b), we can dismiss YOU and ANYTHING you have to say...

[sSsflamesSs]

Now being a jazz musician, you are calling me one of two things: a) unaccomplished; b) an assh0le.

Seeing as how you have not the slightest clue about how accomplished a musician i am, we can safely dismiss a)....

& seeing as how you have never met me & have no clue whether i'm an assh0le or not, we can safely dismiss b).......

Seeing as how we can safely dismiss a) AND b), we can dismiss YOU and ANYTHING you have to say...

You tell him who's boss, tiger!

Ahem, sorry to butt into your passionate debate, hehe.

[ardenik]

this is not a debate, flames..... this is me telling this dude, who i THOUGHT had a pretty valid opinion about jazz (see Oscar Peterson thread: http://forum.armenianclub.com/showthread.php?t=2415) that he should look inwards before criticizing the general community of jazz musicians of the world..... & he should watch what he's saying & who he's saying it to..

[sSsflamesSs]

this is not a debate, flames..... this is me telling this dude, who i THOUGHT had a pretty valid opinion about jazz (see Oscar Peterson thread: http://forum.armenianclub.com/showthread.php?t=2415) that he should look inwards before criticizing the general community of jazz musicians of the world..... & he should watch what he's saying & who he's saying it to..

And this is me telling you that he's merely trying to get a rise out of you, and succeeding.

[ardenik]

well if a rise is what he wants, then a rise is what he's getting... if he would rather be a total dumba$$ than the pretty knowledgeable guy i thought he was back in the oscar peterson thread, then so be it. i enjoy reminding people like this how ridiculously irrelevant their opinions & their very existence is.

[Crimson Glow]

Why is it I can just picture you playing some violent, key mashing tune when I read your last few posts, here?....

[anileve]

did it ever occur to you that maybe they just didn't think you were very pleasant company?

Naaaaaaaw, that's just perposterous ardenik! Simply impossible, with that dusky charm he is in possession of...