Music education:
As the great NY Giant and Dallas Cowboy football coach, Bill Parcells said, "you are what your record says you are.
If a Jazz player made it big in NYC, LA, Chicago, and Europe without education or practice, and signed with one of the great Jazz labels, such as Blue Note, Columbia, Impulse, Verve, Riverside etc... good for them. They beat all the odds. I can't name any.
More than likely, they either stayed in smaller local markets, signed with smaller labels, if any at all, and eventually fell under the relentless logic of The Frogman's First Law.
This applies to ANY artist, in ANY Artistic endeavor.
As Bird himself points out, even Einstein had to go to school.
Cheers
As the great NY Giant and Dallas Cowboy football coach, Bill Parcells said, "you are what your record says you are.
If a Jazz player made it big in NYC, LA, Chicago, and Europe without education or practice, and signed with one of the great Jazz labels, such as Blue Note, Columbia, Impulse, Verve, Riverside etc... good for them. They beat all the odds. I can't name any.
More than likely, they either stayed in smaller local markets, signed with smaller labels, if any at all, and eventually fell under the relentless logic of The Frogman's First Law.
This applies to ANY artist, in ANY Artistic endeavor.
As Bird himself points out, even Einstein had to go to school.
Cheers