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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: My 2 cents, with an example (a bit long) posted by rbolaw on November 16, 2014 at 11:24:35:
In a thread full of good posts, I have to agree with David that yours stands out.
FWIW--and what it's worth is really what we're talking about here, isn't it?--I have to go with the consensus here. That is, critics can be useful if you find good ones who can not only write, but can consistently communicate to you what is present in this music or that which may appeal to this or that type of listener, etc.. The Penguin Guides to jazz (which sadly are no longer being produced, it seems) are, I feel, excellent in this regard. I don't agree with them all the time, but I would say agreement is 90% or better in music I actually know. Strong disagreement is exceedingly rare, but does happen once in a great while. I have some idea of what to expect from a given record, and it's fun to see how my opinions sit next to theirs. They organize the jazz canon on record into something manageable, and this can be of tremendous value.
Then there are guys like Stanley Crouch (a musician, no less) who blather on uselessly projecting their own cultural biases onto everything they purport to be writing about. It's worse than useless sometimes. Reading Bill Cole's book on Coltrane comes to mind as a particularly annoying experience for similar reasons. I suppose it's fair to say that SOME critics are indeed best ignored. The trick is to know how to spot them and not waste your time reading them. This in itself requires some effort, some of which may well get spent reading garbage. You live and learn.....
dh
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