<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113386999182258348..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113449557805293022</id><published>2005-12-13T12:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-13T12:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i&#39;m no great judge of crowd sizes but ron&#39;s estima...</title><summary type='text'>i&#39;m no great judge of crowd sizes but ron&#39;s estimate of 300 people in attendance for this show seems a little high to me. my feeling is that the i-house auditorium itself holds about 300, that it was more or less filled for the braxton show and maybe 60% filled for the smith show.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the turnout discrepancies between the braxton and smith shows are to me attributable to the fact that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113449557805293022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113449557805293022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1134495540000#c113449557805293022' title=''/><author><name>tmorange</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13540323590390887131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-348262623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113398522597563411</id><published>2005-12-07T14:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-07T14:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You can, however, hear, in the best jazz players, ...</title><summary type='text'>You can, however, hear, in the best jazz players, the ability to avoid the habitual gestures that go along with their instrument. The saxophone tempts one to play noodly little scalar runs, the trombone to employ the glissando in particular ways. I think any really good musician in any genre is conscious of these gestures and is therefore able to use them only when necessary/desirable, rather </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113398522597563411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113398522597563411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133985180000#c113398522597563411' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113397134540179100</id><published>2005-12-07T11:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-07T11:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Marsalis has posed himself as a straight, clean-cu...</title><summary type='text'>Marsalis has posed himself as a straight, clean-cut promoter and proselytizer of traditional jazz, attempting to place it within the context of pre-20th Century music as the cliche construction of &quot;Negro&quot; rhythms applied to 19th Century band music, in New Orleans, and then upriver into Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But jazz is too obstreperous to fit inside that kind of neat </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113397134540179100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113397134540179100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133971320000#c113397134540179100' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113392707528376766</id><published>2005-12-06T22:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T22:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sounds to me that the concert was under-rehearsed....</title><summary type='text'>Sounds to me that the concert was under-rehearsed. I saw Leo Smith many times in the late 70&#39;s and loved his playing, but he was by no way a born leader, not the way Braxton is anyway.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also drummers are notoriously bad listeners, which is why when you do hear one who listens, like Sunny Murray or Milford Graves or Tony Oxley, they seem effortlessly to make the ensemble cohere.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;SM</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113392707528376766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113392707528376766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133927040000#c113392707528376766' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113391270117670131</id><published>2005-12-06T18:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T18:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Marsalis is all about preserving his idea of a cla...</title><summary type='text'>Marsalis is all about preserving his idea of a classic jazz canon, and is uninterested in the idea of music as a mode of thinking &amp; exploration. Miles Davis was said to have called him &quot;The Police.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Ken Burns series is fine for the early sections but begins to fall apart once the music hits WW2 with bebop &amp; thereafter. It&#39;s like an anthology of American poetry that ends with Robert </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113391270117670131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113391270117670131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133912700000#c113391270117670131' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113391134353840090</id><published>2005-12-06T18:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T18:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>can someone explain the marsalis/militant conserva...</title><summary type='text'>can someone explain the marsalis/militant conservative thing? i only know him through kenny burns&#39;s version of jazz. he seemed like such a nice young man.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113391134353840090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113391134353840090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133911320000#c113391134353840090' title=''/><author><name>focy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01021224129811308407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1941985412"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113389903131210741</id><published>2005-12-06T14:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T14:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Parker (e.g.) was an intellectual, sure, but not i...</title><summary type='text'>Parker (e.g.) was an intellectual, sure, but not in the sense I think Marsalis means. Parker&#39;s intellect was devoted towards the unsettling and disorientation of his audience, and in particular, the part of his audience that was white. I think Marsalis has a point in that a lot (not all!) of Jazz today has &quot;gone soft&quot;: it is more about repeating the challenges that were challenging forty years </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113389903131210741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113389903131210741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133899020000#c113389903131210741' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113388935967347992</id><published>2005-12-06T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s that moment in Ken Burns&#39;s Jazz when the e...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s that moment in Ken Burns&#39;s Jazz when the ex-leader of the Tonight Show band is allowed to diss Cecil for saying: I do my homework; the audience should come prepared. Which is where I throw my remote at the screen&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Still, one needn&#39;t put down Duke or Pops to celebrate Bird or Trane. At the time, many older players were baffled. Now the progression looks like pages out of Euclid. &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113388935967347992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113388935967347992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133889300000#c113388935967347992' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113388527807159869</id><published>2005-12-06T11:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T11:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with Curtis that you&#39;ve made a comparison ...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with Curtis that you&#39;ve made a comparison that doesn&#39;t exactly work, but for a very different reason. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The overall audience demographics for new music, whether improvised or composed, are somewhat different from that of new writing in at least one major dimension. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Audiences at readings for this kind of work are most often made up of at least 90% by people in the  field,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113388527807159869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113388527807159869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133885220000#c113388527807159869' title=''/><author><name>Herb Levy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04535714024154963215</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1047599926"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113388117538526224</id><published>2005-12-06T09:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-06T09:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, this is an easy one, Ron.You&#39;ve made an inapt ...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, this is an easy one, Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;ve made an inapt comparison.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poetry goes on, just as music goes on.  Jazz is a style, with sub-styles that develop historically.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The audience for jazz may be dying, just as jazz itself seems to be, or has long been rumored to be.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How about this?:  small press poetry is a phenomenon of print media.  When offset appeared, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113388117538526224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113386999182258348/comments/default/113388117538526224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html?showComment=1133881140000#c113388117538526224' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/elements-for-greatness-were-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113386999182258348' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113386999182258348' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 06, 2005"/></entry></feed>