This is the passage from the Abdul-Malik CD's liner notes.
"The public acceptance of a new Jazz musician is generally a difficult thing to attain. Many players after years of hard work find themselves forced to take jobs outside of the music world to feed themselves and their families.
Others bastardize their art and play types of music that usually have nothing whatsoever to do with Jazz.
Unfortunately, in the Jazz world, a man's ability to play, his skill, or his musical ideas do not govern his success , or his failure.
This can be shown in many cases where inferior musical talents have made fortunes while outstanding players have starved."
He goes on to say that Ahmed has found it extremely difficult to find work playing the music he wants to play and the way he wants to play it.
I guess he wasn't listening. He died in 1993.
Cheers
"The public acceptance of a new Jazz musician is generally a difficult thing to attain. Many players after years of hard work find themselves forced to take jobs outside of the music world to feed themselves and their families.
Others bastardize their art and play types of music that usually have nothing whatsoever to do with Jazz.
Unfortunately, in the Jazz world, a man's ability to play, his skill, or his musical ideas do not govern his success , or his failure.
This can be shown in many cases where inferior musical talents have made fortunes while outstanding players have starved."
He goes on to say that Ahmed has found it extremely difficult to find work playing the music he wants to play and the way he wants to play it.
I guess he wasn't listening. He died in 1993.
Cheers