Some humour :)
Received in a forwarded email, all serial numbers carefully removed...
I think I get it... or not... maybe...
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Subject: Fwd: an interview with huxtable p. downes, jazz columnist for the gold coast bulletin.
Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
Dude: 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,
its wrong.
Interviewer: I don't understand.
Dude: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. Its
too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Dude: 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?
Dude: 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, 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?
Dude: That's when the note 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.
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