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- From: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
- Subject: Re: On Drugs, Bebop and The Wire
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.211926.11248@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:19:26 GMT
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- Reply-To: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
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- While I find heroin particularly frightening, there is an interesting
- thread in Ira Gitler's excellent book, "Swing to Bop." The book is an oral
- history of the transition from, well, swing to bop, and there is a discussion
- of what heroin meant to the music. The line of thought advanced is that,
- in fact, the drug did affect the development of the music in a not-entirely-
- inimical way. Gitler quotes Red Rodney and Dexter...very interesting.
-
- Some years back I studied with a fairly well-known musician who had
- dabbled while on the road with Chet Baker; he backed off when he sensed
- he was getting hooked, but felt that above all the drug helped him to
- hear very clearly. I'm sure that at some point it must feel quite wonderful.
- He said he wanted to fell what Bird felt; we all know that one, of course, and
- I agree that the heroin renaissance is scary and very disappointing.
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