Jazz Odyssey

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Robert MacMillan of the Washington Post gives an interesting summary of his SXSW experience. Inspirational paragraph:

"Whatever the outcome in the case, all the posturing and arguing at events like SXSW is well-intentioned but ultimately irrelevant. I’m not a lawyer. I don’t compose or play music for money and my livelihood doesn’t depend on the survival of the music industry, so I’m at liberty to be cavalier about this: Composers will continue to compose, musicians will continue to play. The smart ones among them will find ways to get rich or at least make a living, and smart businesspeople will find new ways to exploit the ones who can read a score but not a balance sheet. That in turn will preserve the centuries-old tradition of singers writing songs about getting screwed because they’re singers."

Pretty much says it all…