funky fugue

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

18 November 2013 - The use of "cat" (sometimes spelled with a 'k') to refer to a jazz musician goes back to the 1920s, with the earliest written use dated 1931.  There are various explanations:  the late nights of the gigs, the less than reputable venues, the disdain for the profession.  I suspect that it was invented to draw parallels between our utter with-it-ness and the genre's embodiment of cool.  We have never needed a peep's permission or respect, and those talents who stretched time signatures and flexed tonality were playing well outside the sandbox.  Bach's contrapuntal compositions are a marvel, but in a shout-down, give me a sax caterwaul any day.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Occasionally tooting your own horn is good for the instrument.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

feline of the day - Ketzel, the NYC tuxedo cat who in 1977 won the Paris New Music Review’s One-Minute Competition