Fri, 24 May 2002
Seize the day - Barney Kessel needs help
I often wonder, if the music business were the utopia that many of us dream about in which artists received benefits directly via a micro payment scheme or the like, wouldn't tragedies like this be a lot easier to deal with? In other words, a simple hyperlink could present the artist's music, visitors are moved to visit the link by his terminal cancer story; maybe you're someone who would never have heard his record had he not wound up in this situation, but you listened and found a bit of humanity in those records, and in doing so his final days were made just a little easier by the payment that he received as a result. I've watched too many people find this fate and it pains me.
Legendary Jazz Guitarist, Barney Kessel Needs Your Help [eJazzNews.com]
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