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In Reply to: RE: Fair Enough posted by belyin on January 20, 2022 at 10:10:07
I like, own recordings by and listen to music by most of the musicians you listed. Surprised if you've been around this joint for a while and don't know that. I'm gonna reply more later. Gotta go food shopping.
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I apologize; I think in part I was responding to someone else and it got crossed up with responses to you. A few points to your post above: Gioia was actually the one writing in critical support of Michael Brecker and wondered why other critics ignored him. I posted another writer to try to give an answer to that. And of course I did make a blanket statement about jazz education. I know plenty of amazing musicians who teach. (All great musicians teach in one way or another, whether in a formal institution or not.} I was thinking of the more narrow , almost "pre-professional" jazz programs of which our local program at the University of New Orleans (or at least did) exemplifies, where "jazz" is taught as a more-or-less fixed practice with a definite Marsalis/Crouch canon as opposed to more open ended music programs. This attitude is exemplified by a published local writer--a Stanley Crouch/Albert Murray disciple--who flat out told me Cecil Taylor was a fraud and that David Murray couldn't play a C Major scale to save his life. And I have had UNO jazz students tell me that Kidd Jordan couldn't read music--a man who taught music for 50 years, who played in the pits for every locally appearing Broadway show and artists like Tony Bennett and Lena Horn, toured with Ray Charles, and contracted horn sections for local appearances by Aretha Franklin and Steve Wonder--all because they couldn't relate to his full on free jazz explosion when left to his own devices. To me that is a put down and very different from saying I don't relate to someone as an artist no matter how great a player they are.
The late Chicago legend Fred Anderson who was a mentor to so many young musicians at his Velvet Lounge jam sessions would always say when some musician would complain about some one else's playing, "Well, that is just the way they hear it." We all hear differently, we all want different thing from musical experiences and that also changes over time and from day-to-day.
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