Thursday, August 28, 2014

Tim Price Bloggin' For D'Addario Woodwinds- .Commitment to your art form -EDDIE SHU and more.

- EDDIE SHU.....This guy is beyond words- and swinging like wild.A true Jazz genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T64pb4pMl4&feature=youtu.be MORE VIDEO- Of Eddie Shu here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffm4rt-Uks0&feature=youtu.be . . . . - What it is...Is hard work and commitment.Commitment to your chosen art form, and desire to do just that.Creativity and responsibility are twins in art. One cannot claim to be truly creative without being responsible. However, the commitment of an artist to a cause should never be blind commitment. The artist should always retain the right to question motives. In that way the artist will remain faithful to both creativity and social responsibility.If all art is a form of communication, all art is produced with an audience in mind. The process of artistic creation is an exercise in communication and as all communication must be able to communicate, it therefore follows that the process of artistic creation entails the responsibility to communicate. It can therefore be argued that there is no necessary contradiction between creativity and responsibility in art. I know that there are philosophies like art for art’s sake, which can be contrasted to say the literature of commitment. But I say you cannot be truly creative without being responsible. The moment you stop being responsible you stop being truly creative.IT DON'T JUST HAPPEN. Musical forward motion.... Being a complete musician goes well beyond the notes.It involves more than just getting a degree, playing your instrument, and those aspects. More so, it includes, the day to day life of travel, prep before you travel, making sure your ducks are in a row on the daily agenda.Gas for the car, bus ticket, clothes and schedule. Anything short of that in todays environment is a loss on the player-performers game card. Yes, it's past the mouthpieces, or a five digit Selmer and the demo CD that your uncle Ralph paid for. It's called- day to day life. Here is a day in my life- as of May 13th. I thought I'd share this with you all dear readers, hope you enjoy it. I continue to explore and learn all I can in the quest to develop my own musical voice. This is an account of a day in my life, and what’s behind the music via a profound the effect on my musical psyche.As I said, being a complete musician goes well beyond the notes. Keep on your path and do something good for somebody. Be well and remember compassion is essential with each other. See you next week. - Tim Price

1 comment:

  1. Yeah Tim nicely said. Also just be nice to each other and support each other. When your piano player etc has his own gig or is playing w/someone else go hear him and support them. What goes around comes around.

    Later Tim,

    Larry W

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