haven't read this stuff in a long time, but i seem to recall that cool jazz is considered pretty white so i can see why marsalis feels the way he does. can you dance to it? it ain't black jazz if you cain't. if it don't move yer hips, it ain't jazz!!! damn it. black jazz got subsumed into soul with a big brass section.
kelley (who nonetheless loves buddy rich!)
>But his limited view is why two year periods get an hour and half early in the
>series and the last 41 years gets one episode at the end of the series and
>less
>than 50 pages in 500 page book. I'm only going on reviews here but the
>comments
>sound correct; Burns and Marsalis argue that jazz was dying by the 60's. By
>playing Ellington in a repertory arrangement (jazz repertory! The mind boggles
>at the ramifications of that statement) Marsalis sees himself as resurrecting
>jazz, defined as swing and little else.
>
>I cannot pretend to understand the nature of being black in America, or the
>connection that jazz would have to your soul in that culture. But I do know
>that connection wasn't severed 40 years ago when Miles recorded Kind of Blue
>or Ornette Coleman recorded The Shape of Jazz to Come.
>
>There, I feel better now.
>
>PC
>N Paul Childs
>This address or <npchilds at hotmail.com>
>