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David Finck: The Bass, Scatting Offenses, and the Back Hoe

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AAJ: What makes the high-level stuff?

DF: It's well-executed, with great control over musical language that I might not speak, but can hear. That can be pretty intense stuff—a great tenor sax solo is pretty dense for a civilian to grasp. There has to be a way to teach people, at least, what's admirable. Whether it's to your taste or not. We can learn what's important about Michelangelo.

Some musicians lose sight of the fact that it's a form of entertainment. If you express yourself in a language so obtuse that musicians don't even get it, and then complain that nobody understands me, you forget that these people still want to be entertained.

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