**** My point exactly. You make my argument for me. I just said the audience can and do effect the performers. ****
Rok, you are going around in circles. Of course the performer reacts to the audience. I made that clear in my very first response to the idea that “performing in Japan is not about the music”: a ridiculous contention. Reaction to the audience does not mean the music will be inferior. as was suggested.
**** Miles, I don't know the man, MAY have thought these guys wouldn't know great Jazz if it fell on them. ****
What you are not understanding is that none of the above means that a performer with artistic integrity will, in any way, compromise the quality of the music or his performance; “showboating” being one example. That was the original and mistaken contention. Why don’t you worry a little less about being “correct” and a little more about understanding the very interesting nuances in all this. Great artists care about the quality of the art first and foremost; the audience comes after.
Rok, you are going around in circles. Of course the performer reacts to the audience. I made that clear in my very first response to the idea that “performing in Japan is not about the music”: a ridiculous contention. Reaction to the audience does not mean the music will be inferior. as was suggested.
**** Miles, I don't know the man, MAY have thought these guys wouldn't know great Jazz if it fell on them. ****
What you are not understanding is that none of the above means that a performer with artistic integrity will, in any way, compromise the quality of the music or his performance; “showboating” being one example. That was the original and mistaken contention. Why don’t you worry a little less about being “correct” and a little more about understanding the very interesting nuances in all this. Great artists care about the quality of the art first and foremost; the audience comes after.