[lbo-talk] Just wondering...

[Mark Bennett]

At the risk of simplification, jazz lost its vitality when it left the
bandstand and entered the university, although the academy may be the only
thing keeping the music alive, at least in the U.S.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:


> At 03:51 PM 3/29/2011, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
>
>  Looking back it was a complicated world to figure out as a kid in terms of
>> art and politics.
>>
>
>
> Cops used to roust white kids out of record shops in South Central (read:
> black) Los Angeles.
>
> I can do without out about 99% of contemporary jazz, but for decades people
> made great jazz that had a lot of crossover with other styles.  Even
> country, with people like Ray Price, who was the first to hire Willie
> Nelson, and you can still hear jazz influences in Merle Haggard.
>
> For the most part these days though I'm with Lou Reed, who said if it's got
> more than three chords it's jazz, and I'm not much interested.
>
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