re: #654 albusteve

I do get his phrasing, you needn’t be condescending…but I don’t think he invented it…the blue note, and drop note have been around for decades, experiments with phrasing goes way back to Mississippi field hollers and Dylan just continued the experiment, cramming more words into the beat etc…I’m not surprised you don’t get it

I’d post music videos illustrating my point, but you’ve already said you don’t watch them. The truth is, I’m a little too tired to go looking. Maybe later. What you’ve said above is true to a point, but doesn’t go far enough. Allen Ginsberg spent time explaining prana which can loosely be defined as the modulation of the life-force associated with one’s manner of breathing. At that point, Dylan’s phrasing took a quantum-jump: it was no longer a prolongation of field hollers or cramming more words into the beat, etc., just as Charlie Parker’s music could not be said to be some sort of souped-up version Dixieland. In each case, they had pushed the envelope in new territory: something which had never been heard before. As for being condescending, I wasn’t. But so as not to disappoint you, let me add that I’m not surprised that you think I was.