Re: Burns' 'Jazz' gives the music a boost

From: Gen Kanai (gkanai@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 16:38:55 CET

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    Now that's funny!

    That's why music company executives are so fscking slimey. Either they're
    smoking crack or they're dreaming. Both probably.

    The Marsalis brothers don't even deserve to be compared to 'Trane or
    Miles. It pains me to even write their names in the same sentence.

    "make the leap" my ass! If I had to go from Coltrane and Miles Davis to
    anything by either of the Marsalis brothers, I'd rather leap off a cliff!

    The biggest shame about all this "Jazz" documentary hoopla is that now no
    one's going to be able to do another large-scale documentary on the Jazz
    artists Burns didn't cover, or hardly touched on, or didn't do justice
    to. The farther away I get from the documentary, the more angry I get.

    Gen

    At 08:37 AM 2/5/01 -0600, Ryan Hanser wrote:
    >"Reignited interest in the genre"?
    >
    >Or my favorite:
    >"We're hoping that people are able to appreciate artists like John Coltrane
    >and Miles Davis" -- said Jeff Jones, senior vice president of
    >Columbia/Legacy Recordings -- "and then make the leap to Branford and Wynton
    >Marsalis."



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