> Dear Jim; > > I do. I need jazz. I don't need the Who. That's just me. However, I > don't need every expression of jazz that's put out. I'm not going to try to > tell you that you should need jazz or that you should need the jazz I like. > There's something for everybody. I don't know why we seem to find it > necessary to belittle each other's tastes in order to promote our own. The > whole argument seems to come down to the idea that what I like is good and > what I don't like is bad in some objective sense. So far no one has managed > to articulate what objectively makes the Who good and Charlie Parker I am not a big jazz fan, but Strayhorn's "Daydream" is as great a piece of music as anything classical. And having "The Who???" in the same paragraph is preposterous. The only R&R entity that ever could stand up to classical and be judjed (favorably) on classical terms was KingCrimson's LIZARD. RT
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