Jazz

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Wed Jan 17 14:18:06 PST 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


> The very subject matter doesn't give much latitude for this. Sidney Bechet
> (among others) had to flee to Paris to really feel at home as a performer;
> Bix Beiderbecke was suffocated by his repressive Midwestern family; Duke
> Ellington had to lease a private railroad car so he and his musicians
> wouldn't be discriminated against while touring the South. You can't put too
> much of a USA-all-the-way spin on material like that.

That's good to hear. Perhaps I'll check it out when I get a chance. I also heard that Burn doesn't give 60s jazz its due. If so, that would be a shame. That's my favorite time period for the genre.

Chuck0



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