Jazz

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>John Halle wrote:
>
>>Of course, the pwog-left has long
>>since given up on classical music as it is just ever so terribly elitist.
>
>Not me. I'm all for high bourgeois culture. I started listening to
>classical music as a youngster, and spent years studying it too. But
>after a while, I burned out on the canon ...

... and wound up a fan of the multi-talentless Madonna.  Apparently you 
weren't just "burned out," Doug, but utter vaporized :-)


>The culture surrounding jazz has always mystified me. Though it's a
>kind of "popular" music, there's an air of painfully high seriousness
>among
>afficionados. Jazz DJs assume a tone of almost funereal reverence
>when they identify what they've just played, and read the name of
>everyone associated with the recording except the janitor who swept
>the studio.

You got that right.  This priestly attitude that is indeed characteristic of 
jazz DJs does a severe disservice to the music.  There is certainly no other 
field of music that breeds the pedantic oneupmanship that seems eternally to 
bedevil jazz.

Carl
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