quinta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2014

Duke Ellington, CEO

Desse ótimo artigo de Adam Gopnik sobre Duke e os Beatles:

Ellington's ear, his energy, his organizational abilities, the sureness of his decisions are a case study for management school. (Consider the way he fired Charles Mingus for fighting with Tizol, fondly but with no appeal: "I'm afraid, Charles - I've never fired anybody - you'll have to quit my band. I don't need any new problems. Juan's an old problem... I must ask you to be kind enough to give me your notice.") These are not ordinary or secondary gifts. They were the essence of his genius. Ellington had an idea of a certain kind of jazz: tonal, atmospheric, blues-based but elegant. He took what he needed to realize the ideal he had invented. The tunes may have begun with his sidemen; the music was his. This is not a secondary form of originality, which needs a postmodern apologia, in which "curating" is another kind of "creating." It is the original kind of originality.

4 comentários:

Frank disse...

parece interessante.

tentei achar uma free "full version" sem sucesso.

o Gopnik faz uma leitura favorável do q muitos consideram um defeito (desonestidade ?) do Ellington - "roubar" canções de seus colaboradores (em q o caso mais famoso é do Billy Strayhorn).

vc tem o artigo inteiro ?

Drunkeynesian disse...

Exatamente isso - fala do Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges, etc... os caras bolavam um monte de riffs, mas o Ellington que transformava em música.

Vou salvar um pdf e já posto o link aqui.

Drunkeynesian disse...

Aqui o pdf: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52514556/The%20New%20Yorker%20_%20Dec%2023%2C%202013.pdf

Frank disse...

opa...voltando aqui 2,5 meses depois....

obrigado pelo link.

abs