The opinion of experts

[Serial_Apologist]

Didn’t some one once describe Derives as essentially an extended collective jazz improv ? . In which your gigging abilities seem to me ample qualification.

If that is so, I think the person who said such would be "in error". And I'm afraid my restricted gigging abilities [sic] would fall far short!

[Leinster Lass]

[QUOTE=Richard Barrett;828119]That was entirely intentional.[QUOTE]


Happy memories of S ns ne De e ts.

[Ein Heldenleben]

If that is so, I think the person who said such would be "in error". And I'm afraid my restricted gigging abilities [sic] would fall far short!

I think it was one of the broadsheet critics but she/ he may have been quoting . I don’t think the jazz catch all vamp till ready would really cut it with Pierre B ....

[Richard Barrett]

I think the person who said such would be "in error".

Completely. I can't imagine who could be so cloth-eared as to hear that piece and then come to such a conclusion, to be honest!

[rauschwerk]

Poor Mario! No wonder he politely left this thread.

I would have liked to say to him that it can never do him any harm to listen to 'bad' music (poorly composed, extremely trivial, vulgar, sentimental or what you will). How can you learn to rate the good stuff without such a yardstick? When I was a teenager, my friends and I enjoyed Don Gillis's Symphony No. 5½ and were quite unfazed when the school genius (who had passed the 11-plus two years early) assured us that it was rubbish. I got tired of it in the end, though I did recently buy the Dutton reissue of the composer's recording as a kind of nostalgia trip and played it once or twice. I insist that enjoying such pieces as this and the 1812 Overture did not pervert my musical tastes.