the next time wynton says anything anti-fusion, bring up
an album called "fuse one" w/stanley clarke, george
duke, wynton & others...
-t
> But, I've got to say this about Wynton M. He can rock it, I mean swing it,
> hard. He's just one of those cats that was born 50 years too late.
> Rachmaninoff was like that, too. And, I've got to say Wynton's original
> posse rocks, as well. Jeff "Tain" Watts, Marcus Roberts, Robert Leslie
> Hurst, those guys on some of those early albums picked up where Miles'
> "Nefretiti" group with Herbie, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams left off.
>
> When listening to Wynton, don't think, "What a pompous windbag this
> synthesizer and funk hater is" but just try to listen without prejudice....
> When I do that, I think, "that's serious musicianship and some innovative
> approach to older music in a classic context," which it is.
>
> . Especially
> > >since Wynton Marsalis and his regressive cohorts
> > >declared that cloning and rehashing was better than
> > >plain trying to kick your shit whichever/however.
>
>
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