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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3990 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should I Quit College?

It's true, jazz education is a joke. This is real jazz education.

Honestly, the main reason I came to a school 8 hours from home is because I wanted to get away from my family. Three years later, I want to be as close to my family as I can.





cgod  ·  3990 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Really just one more year to go, you should probably just push through. Almost feel bad about telling you what Russ said, but I think it was the honest opinion of a bad ass jazzer.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3990 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No you shouldn't feel bad, it's something I've known and have personally been told by some jazz educators before. The heaviest of hitters never went to school and look at what they did? It makes one wonder the wonders of heroin though. I don't know that I'd ever go that far, but it makes one curious that's for sure.

cgod  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think Heroin was more a side effect of the culture not a cause of good music. I never heard any great talk about it as an enabler.

LSD on the other hand... Ornette and Coltrane both did a lot of it, and praised it's effects.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought Coltrane and Miles did a heroin? Regardless, I know Coltrane's free jazz phase was clean.

cgod  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They did Heroin, but I've never read anywhere that they thought it did anything for their music.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm, alright then. I'm not too interested in heroin to look into it haha.