Sunday, April 18, 2010

Does any music inflate the soul more than Dixieland?

Out running errands when the traditional jazz show played "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me," and my soul soured -- an interesting phenomenon since this is a BLUES song, and yet the blues in the Dixieland idiom is always positive, enriching, affirming, perhaps from the sheer energy of the intertwining musical lines, every instrument going nuts around the melody, damn it makes you glad to be alive!

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