Fwd: Jazz, again

[Justin Schwartz]

Agreed about the role of Marsalis. I listen to mostly classic, i.e., older 
jazz myself, but the problem with M is not his retro taste. It was 
identified by Duke Ellington in the 1930s: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't 
Got That Swing. M and the Lincoln Center crowd do not swing. That is a 
reason I do not own any of his discs anymore; I sold them all, traded them 
in for stuff that swings, older and newer. --jks
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>What troubles me is the central role Marsalis is playing in the series. 
>I’ve seen the man perform several times, own a lot of his CD’s and my kids 
>learned music with his video series, and he is a brilliant player and 
>teacher. But when he performs, the music he plays is, in most cases, older 
>than me, and I'm 41. For Marsalis, and now Ken Burns, jazz stopped growing 
>in the sixties. This is absolute crap. >
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