One of the goals of Jazz@Rochester is to get you all talking to each other about live jazz in Rochester. As you may have noticed, I have been bringing other voices to write guest posts on the blog for awhile. What you may not have noticed is that some of you are also talking . . . in the comments to posts. Recently, we’ve had some great comments and I wanted to point them out to you, in case you missed them:
- After I published "Another voice from Rochester jazz . . . Drummer Mike Melito" on April 10th, a conversation developed in the comments. Following Mike, bassist Fred Stone wrote about the jazz scene in Rochester in the 60s and leaving the city at 20 to find new ideas and ways to express himself on the bass and finding it in Boston at the Berklee School of Music. He returned to Rochester and continues to explore those new ideas, although finding the city a pretty lonely place for his brand of progressive jazz. Fred’s comment drew a replies from Mike and from Bob Sneider (perhaps it was the "Blue Note buddies at the Strathallan" aside"?) and even Tracy at Rochester Scene (and Heard) chimed in at the end.
- Some time after I posted Ian Kloss’s review of Henderson-Owens Trio featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith, Sean Jefferson, drummer for Paradigm Shift and The Jazz Mad Lab wrote a second review of the show in a comment (we may hear more from Sean in the future).
A blog (at least this blog) is intended to be a social media, to create, feed and join in on conversations that are going on out there. They serve this purpose mostly through comments and through linking to other bloggers; in short, interacting with the conversation. I think they add to the knowledge and the community of jazz here. For me, these comments are an example of this blog serving that purpose. I’ve had over 100 comments in the past 2 years, but there are few instances where they start resembling that conversation. I want to encourage that.
How do you do it yourself? To read or leave a comment, just click on the Comments link at the bottom of each post. If you’re leaving a comment, it is simply a matter of filling in the "boxes" and hitting the button (you’ll have to fill in a captcha after that). If you’re reading, I hope you feel compelled to join the conversation. My comment policy is pretty simple (for a recovering lawyer, that’s saying a lot…):
No spam, stay on topic, play nice, and only put in links where you’re guiding my readers to relevant resources or information.
I may expand on this in the "I Told You So…" page, but there it is. Let’s get on with the conversation!
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