Love 'Em or Hate 'Em II (Music Discussion Thread)

[Nonc Hilaire]

Memory is weak. You will like the best of James Booker’s piano but he was usually high and performances were uneven. He was Harry Connick Jr’s piano teacher. Died in the ER waiting room at Charity Hospital.

Also Henry Butler, blind pianist and photographer. Photographed anything that caught his interest then brought the film to his wife do she could explain it. He became the principal of the school for the arts.

R&B look for recordings of the Ernie K-Doe radio shows. Crazy man
My passion was Cajun and Zydeco. Jazz not so much.
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[Typhoon]

Quillette | The Emperor’s New Score

Classical music was one of the first fields to impose the self-censorship that now pervades so many areas of intellectual and cultural life.

The greatest trick of the 20th-century avant-garde was convincing composers that audiences are the problem.

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