>getting into jazz a bit>every other musician I look up died in their 50s or 60sWhat's the deal with this?
>>129659901COCAINE
The brightest flame burns quickest.
>>129659901Turns out shooting up dope every day takes years off your life. Who knew?
>>129659958>>129660664Is blow and heroin more commonly abused in jazz than other genres?
>>129660667It has more to do with being in the entertainment field in a setting that's a late-nite party setting (nightclubs) yet always having to be ready to go to do 3 or more 1-hour sets a night.
>>129660700Makes sense. I got shitfaced at a party I where I was supposed to make pizza for like 15 people but a few lines made me able to do it easily, shit definitely works really well.
>>129660710But then you need to come down at the end and chill at the after hours, so...
>>129660730I just do more lines, smoke an entire pack of cigarettes, drink 10 beers and then crash miserably at 6 am and want to kms the next day
>>129659901Sonny Rollins is like 100 years old and played shows until a few years ago
>>129659901Amazed at how I can look at them and just know at this point
>>129659901Until the 50s, drug abuse was worse among jazz musicians than it ever was among rock musicians.You'd think someone like Bill Evans was a clean-living, wholesome white intellectual, by the character of their music, but he was so badly heroin addicted that he had to shoot up backstage at every concert or else he was physically unable to play. Some like Miles and Coltrane managed to break it, but their health and lifespan was still affected by it.
>>129663173and cf. Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day
>>129663630I don't know how O'Day lived to 86 with her lifestyle, it shouldn't have been possible.
>>129660700Wes Montgomery dropped in his 40s from being on the road constantly and getting 4 hours of sleep a night.
>>129662178Helen Merrill
>>129663173how healthy do you think a guy who lived to 51 could have been anyway?
