Re: Jazz in the 70's: an opposing view

From: Bob Davis (earthjuice@prodigy.net)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 13:49:01 CET

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    From: Stephen Bayer (by way of Jason Witherspoon
    <aNOrzaSPAMchel@speakeasy.org>) <spbayer@yahoo.com>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:25 AM
    Subject: Jazz in the 70's: an opposing view

    > While Ken Burns has been roundly criticized for the scant
    > attention "Jazz" paid to the music since 1970, after seeing episode 10
    > I only wish he had said nothing whatsoever. What a sour note to end
    > on! My 14-year old son, who had watched the entire series, asked, in
    > confusion, why the last episode was suddenly nothing but people putting
    > down other people's music.
    >
    > It would have made a far happier ending for everyone, the devoted fan
    > and the newly initiated, to have portrayed the 70's for what they
    > really were: the triumph of jazz, a triumph both commercial and
    > artistic, and, indeed, a triumph inseparable from the success of the
    > civil rights movement.
    >
    > Ken Burns and Geoffrey Ward judged jazz in the 70's to be in a state of
    > collapse and despair, but this is clearly the judgement of people who
    > were not there or, at least, certainly not paying attention.
    >

    I'm taking this posting, printing it out and placing it into a frame!

    Thank You VERY much for putting this up...
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