[lbo-talk] Re: Black music makes history

[dave dorkin]

I do disagree myself & I know alot of musicians who
also do. How many I cant say, but most non musicians
would be hard pressed to meaningfully evaluate the
music, more so now than ever before. I would say that
the general public in the US no doubt agrees with you
though. I think jazz is something very different from
what it used to be. More fused with other phrasings,
timbres, styles, extended harmonies & rhythms the
people you mention never imagined & the idea of a
relative dearth of good jazz is much stronger in the
musically more conservative american jazz imagination.

Dave

--- andie nachgeborenen:  But I don't believe that
most jazz people would put any of these people in the
same league with Coltrane or Parker or Ellington or
Armstrong. I actually don't believe that you do. If
you do, well, you and I disagree about whether there
is a falling off (or an efflorescence) that needs explanation.

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