Re: What Is Hip?

[Patrick Bianchi <prbianch@ma.ultranet.com>]

At 10:59 AM 3/2/97 +0500, you wrote:
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>Hi Hammond Friends,
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>Collectively, we have some very diverse tastes in music, no question about 
>that. 
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>"Hip" - to some people - has to be Booker T.  Certain words apply to his 
>playing that don't fit the "busier" (or more capable, if you like that word) 
>players. 
                   
                 I personally don't think busier is a word that could be
synonamous with capable....Just because you can play lots-o-stuff really
fast, it don't mean you are any more/less capable than a person who plays
less stuff and a little slower...It is just a different approach to
different styles of music..The best example I could relate to is Thelonious
Monk...Playing burning bop licks or any of Trane's stuff on a RB ballad or
whatever would be very inapropriate to the style unless you were actually
playing any bop tunes or Countdown or 26-2 etc...But then again some people
seem to really dig that "out of context" thing....

>.Whatever the reason, my two cents worth of "hip" definitely leans to Booker. 

           For all the jazzer's just imagine if Chick Corea or Herbie
Hancock or McCoy Tyner or Monk played their -STYLE- of Jazz on the B3...It's
a very scary thought to me!....MY IDEA OF HIP!    just my 0.02 as well.....



Patrick Bianchi
prbianch@ma.ultranet.com
Playin' a M100 thru a 125....
both HEAVILY modified :-)