Someone mentioned that Stockhausen disliked jazz for being a low-class
music. I think one of the reasons he's so original(e) is the fact he was
born poor and got in touch with the so-called high music in very late age
(have you ever listened to Spiral!?). I'm not talking about class
determinism but he would certainly act different if he had the tradition
in the core of mind, like, let's say, Hindemith or even Henze and Von Bose.
By the way, I once read an interview in which Stockhausne said he liked
Miles Davis music but hated Zappa... When he came to Brazil, more than
ten years ago, he opened for his Markus to play some of the modern
electronic jazz he plays, he's a trumpeteer... The poet Haroldo de Campos
did a wonderful report about it.
rafael
