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RE: Was the '80's really that bad for Jazz?

I think the 1980s was a very good decade for jazz, better than the 1970s.

Clearly the thing the period will be best remembered for is the emergence of a neo conservative movement led by Wynton Marsalis and all the related music he and his friends and collaborators made.

That music was and is not particularly my bag but during the same era there was great stuff...some of my favorite jazz records of the last 30 years -- Ornette's In All Languages and Song X; Muhal Richard Abrams' Hearinga Suite; Blood Ulmer's Odyssey and the early Phalanx stuff; all those great early David Murray Octet albums on Black Saint (Ming, Home, Murray's Steps, New Life); Sun Ra's Fireside Chat with Lucifer; The Art Ensemble's Urban Bushmen; the WSQ records; Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society albums; the earliest Bill Frisell records....plus as others have mentioned the reemergence of Sonny Sharrock.....a good period all in all of music I very much still listen to.
Jason Chervokas


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