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>On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
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>> Where are the Louis Armstrongs or Charlie Parkers of today?
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Denis wrote:
>Hip-hopping or DJ-ing in the 'hood, that's where. I've always felt that
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Listen to marcus miller "tales" (1995). he attempts to stylise a link
b/tw the old and the new
Dennis Redmond:
>This is part of a larger
>and properly dialectical cultural shift in late capitalism, away from
>specialized craft producers and towards cross-specialized artists, or more
>precisely, from instrumental production to studio production.
This puts the shift in technical, economic t
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 ja
Dave Markland:
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>This leads up to my second point. You mentioned a low-point in the Black
>nationalist movement at the moment, reflected in neo-conservative,
>unexciting jazz. However, you failed to mention bands like US3 (on Blue
>Note records)or other acid jazz/hip hop. If jazz, defined as n
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
art
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
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
