On Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:52:21 -0800 Sam Pawlett <epawlett at uniserve.com> writes:
>"To my mind, another great misfortune of the new jazz was that its
>exponents from the very beginning tried to identify themselves with the
>political left.
This is supposed to be a MISFORTUNE???
"No spiritual search here, no yearning for a better shake in the next world - the octet was about power, sheer power in the here and now. Somehow, God didn't seem to hang around the bandstand when Brotzmann picked up a saxophone so the guys had to bully their own miracles out of their horns." - Steve Lake, liner notes to Machine Gun
Sheesh, even their approach to Jazz is Marxist!
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