Jazz

[Uday Mohan]

Gordon Fitch wrote:
> If it is America's _the_ classical music, then you're going
> to need a new box for Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Harry Partch,
> Brain Eno, etc.  I guess Glass and maybe Eno can go in the
> semi-pop box but the others are going to be a problem.  They
> aren't jazz and they aren't pop and many people take them
> very, very seriously.

Eno's a Brit. And Reich's been remixed (the "Reich Remixed" CD) by
electronica artists. Partch seems too idiosyncratic to be labeled
classical. He's certainly not part of any performance canon.


> What differentiates classical from pop in Indian
> is discipline, ambition, and context.  

No formal elements? And success in both Indian classical and pop musics
require ambition and discipline (from what I've seen as a not very
knowledgeable fan of some of it).

Uday