White jazz--those were the words that kept running through my head. Why?
This evening I listened to three of America's finest jazz musicians tonight
at Birdland: Paul Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass and Paul Motian on
drums. And they all happen to be white.
"White Jazz" is the title of a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do know know what fundamental currency values are? They are like
"real interest rates". We speak confidently about them even though nobody
can see them.
Think of the huge currency swings of the dollar in the 1980s. Did the
fundamentals change that much?
In a message dated 98-01-18 00:16:08 EST, you write:
Most young black jazz musicians follow in the
footsteps of Wynton Marsalis, whom some people regard as a neoconservative.
He is the curator of the jazz program at Lincoln Center. His partner is
Stanley Crouch, the author of "The Hanging
Doug Henwood wrote,
"Fundamental" values are the ones around which the market values oscillate
- the long-term trend, if you prefer, or a center of gravity.
I assume that Doug meant to say "market prices" instead of "market values".
It's not clear whether Doug is endorsing or simply reporting
Lou:
You seem to agree with the somewhat unexamined assertion that jazz has gone
through several "stages" or "eras". While there is certainly more than a
grain of truth in that, and while I certainly wouldn't want the term
"semantics" to come up in such a discussion, it seems to me a sort of
Michael Perelman wrote:
The problem is that, like real interest rates, we can see the pattern
after the
fact. No one knows what the fundamentals are at the moment.
We can get a pretty good idea in the present; the hard thing is deciding
when market prices will move towards the center of
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
Where are the Louis Armstrongs or Charlie Parkers of today?
Hip-hopping or DJ-ing in the 'hood, that's where. I've always felt that
the lineage of jazz modernism, from Armstrong's solos to Parker's bebop
tremolos to Coltrane's magnificent works of
Doug Henwood wrote,
Michael Perelman wrote:
The problem is that, like real interest rates, we can see the pattern
after the
fact. No one knows what the fundamentals are at the moment.
We can get a pretty good idea in the present; the hard thing is deciding
when market prices will move towards
Doug Henwood wrote:
Who ever said they reach equilibrium? I said oscillate around. (See Robert
Shiller's wonderful chart of stock prices in Market Volatility for an
example of just what I mean.) The prices of stocks are, over the long term,
constrained by underlying corporate profits.
Doug Henwood wrote,
Who ever said they reach equilibrium? I said oscillate around.
Who ever?, indeed. Doug didn't and I didn't say, or imply, he did.
(See RobertShiller's wonderful chart of stock prices in Market Volatility
for an example of just what I mean.)
Or see N. Kondratieff's
Tom Walker wrote:
I assume that Doug meant to say "market prices" instead of "market values".
Yeah.
It's not clear whether Doug is endorsing or simply reporting this definition
deadpan.
I think it's more or less true.
But it is a good example of how to explain an indefinite term by
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