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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (301352)	12/31/2010 7:06:24 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Did their music celebrate drugs? Give me an example.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (301352)	12/31/2010 9:35:49 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Respond to of 306849

Wasn't Bach smoking a bong and performing auto asphyxiation while composing Toccata and Fugue in D minor?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (301352)	1/1/2011 9:10:07 AM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 306849

There's an out-of-copyright collection of 168 jazz (more or less, plus ragtime and some blues) that I got somewhere on the Internet for about $175. It comes with two paperback biographies of all the musicians and certainly gives an often dismal (if extremely interesting) picture of their life and times. Starts with Scott Joplin and gets beyond Duke Ellington. I loaded it into a 300-CD changer on top of the refrigerator and hit the "random" button at dinner time. With the other 100 CDs I have in there, that's several thousand possible choices.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (301352)	1/1/2011 2:31:20 PM
From: Reilly Diefenbach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

A list of brilliantly talented but drug addiction-wasted jazz musicians wouldn't be complete without Chet Baker. Baker was a extremely talented and photogenic trumpet player/vocalist who had star quality but blew it all with a heroin addiction that would plague him from the 1950s until the end of his life. He was the subject of an excellent documentary, Let's Get Lost, produced prior to his death in 1988 and released shortly afterward: youtube.com Absolutely NOTHING about this film or any critical examination of Baker's life would in any way glamorize drugs.