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In Reply to: RE: Interesting long article w/pics about the new jazz scene in NYC. posted by Rick W on March 18, 2022 at 08:06:37
Jazz is Alive in Places that DON'T Smell Funny?
Like too many jazz joints used to. Even The Jazz Workshop, when it was
briefly resurrected in the 80's smelled funny/bad like too many joints
that are basically a bar with music and all the odors a bar produces.
Was just going to post that well written, informative and ALIVE piece.
A bright, vivid, alive, POSITIVE scene it seems.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
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Giovanni Russonello is an excellent writer, especially when the topic is Jazz, and a former programmer at WPFW in DC.
"Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once." - John Coltrane.
Cpwill
There's a long established tradition of playing the old standards in jam sessions. Most players know most of the tunes. In its favour these kind of jam sessions bring out new talent, help create new bands and give a lot of players the chance to play in public.
On the other hand the repertoire may be regarded by contemporary audiences as stale unless standards are re-imagined.
So it's an audience thing, as jazz always is. Musicians will always turn up at jam sessions, but the crowds will go where they hear the music that they dig the most and makes them come back again and again. Could be old or new. You can't tell those that like the old tunes that they should be listening to something more up to date, and you can't expect those who demand something fresh to be satisfied with a menu of old standards.
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