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Musical Valium: 10 cds To Put Your Mind at Ease
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
There's not much good news out there lately. Even if you believe we'll be Kerryed out of this economic and global mess, that won't start for another ten months. In general I pay minimal attention to the news, figuring that if anything really terrible happened my friends would tell me, if they had enough time before ...
A Psychiatric Christmas Poem
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The Only Normal Family in America Twas the last shrink convention and all through the house Not a Skinner box was stirring With chimp, rat or mouse. The speaker that day had the focus of all The seekers of truth who had crowded the hall. Their ...
The Jazz Times Halloween Scare
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
In October of 2002, Jazz Times ran a cover story called “Hard Bop, Hard Time: Music, Madness and Roy Brooks. “ It was good timing, since the article was as dark and scary - and as full of fantasy - as Halloween. It warns that jazz musicians are especially prone to developing bipolar “disease," ...
Critical Conditions
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
One of the most heinous creatures to stalk the nightmares of a jazz musician - next to the club owner and the wedding guest who keeps requesting “Proud Mary" - is the critic. Even the word is aversive: sharp and insect-like - cri-TICK - it evokes the specter of some prowling bloodsucker, draining people of confidence ...
Clinging to a Myth
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
I've learned that nobody wants to hear that musicians are sane. The idea of the dissipated and doomed musician is so deeply embedded in our culture that, after 18 months of intensive hunting, I still can't find a mainstream publisher willing to challenge it in print. A few visionary editors have recognized the pernicious nature of ...
Jazz, 9/11, and Healing
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
It will take years for all the shuddering to settle down. While scrambling to find something positive in the immense tragedy of September 11, many writers have predicted that we'll lose our appetite for cinematic violence and fiery death, now that their ugliness has become so personal. In fact, Schwartzenegger's latest bang-bang was recently pulled from ...
Jobim, Master Therapist
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Antonio Carlos Jobim (January 25, 1927 - December 8, 1994) The day after Jobim died I was in a store, trying, as usual, to ignore their Muzak. Suddenly they started playing “Ipanema" in one of those murderously perky arrangements. It was so awful, especially coming after all the recent gorgeous airplay of his work, ...
New Developments on the 'Mad Creative' Front
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
As many of you know, I hate the noxious myth that creativity and mental “illness" are necessarily linked. Being a devoted fan of people with talent, as well as a psychologist, I've been fighting the “mad creative" myth on various battlefields for about 20 years. I addressed it here last December in “ The Jazz Times ...
Are-ee-ess-pee-EEE-cee-tee
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This column is about respect. It may be rather cranky, written as it was during New York's oppressive summer soup, but the issue is real: the disgraceful lack of respect for musicians. It's hardly news that most are paid far less than they're worth, and often treated more shabbily than the busboys in the clubs where ...
Beauty Fights The Beasts: Wendy Oxenhorn Vs Homelessness, Poverty, Illness And Despair
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
At the recent Jazz Journalist Association awards, a benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America [JFA] for which she's executive director, Wendy Oxenhorn was an odd sight: wailing away on the harmonica in the middle of a blues band, swaying and dipping gracefully like the ballerina she once was. In her soft pink dress and long, ...
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