Chuck Israels wrote:
"Listening to music on records is like getting kissed over the telephone." - Jerry Rosen, former BSO violinist & pianist
"It's more like eating a picture of food." - Bill Dobbins, jazz pianist/composer/arranger
Still, I feel that my recordings are the real artifacts of my work. Hmmn.
Well, recordings are the only way that anybody who hasn't had the benefit of attending one of your concerts has of evaluating or enjoying your work at all. And who wants to do 7 shows a day, 365 days a year, just to guarantee the widest exposure of your music to potential audiences.
There is much room for both live and recorded music -- I had the privilege of hearing the Buddy Rich Orchestra twice shortly before he stopped touring with it, and the power and magic of those concerts comes back full-force when I listen to his records. Without the live experience, I wouldn't enjoy the recordings the same way. BUT, with that live experience, my mind can extrapolate from OTHER bands' recordings, so I feel I can more accurately recreate in my mind what it must have been like to hear those bands as well.
But in 100 years, all that will be left of Chuck Israels' or David Bailey's or anybody's life work will be those artifacts we can leave behind. And recordings are those artifacts for musicians, just as scores are those artifacts for composers, printed books are those artifacts for authors, the printed plays are those artifacts for Shakespeare, and on and on.
I disagree with Rosen's quote -- recordings are the photographs that spark our aural memories.
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