>From: "Steve Catanzaro" <stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com>
>To: <philipm@isd.canberra.edu.au>, "acid jazz" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>Subject: Re: Blue Note: Flushing jazz down the toilet
>Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:40:51 -0700
>X-Priority: 3
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>> word! oh hang on, miles went to school...oh well
>
>"...I was learning more from hanging out, so I just got bored with school
>after a while.... Sh*t, I could learn more in one session at Minton's than
>it would take me two years to learn at Juilliard....
>Juilliard was only a smokescreen, a stopover, to put me close to Bird and
>Diz."
>
> ---- Miles Davis, "Autobiography."
Hmm, what about all the guys who dropped out of Berklee once they got
a good gig, sorry no names come to my mind. But, don't you think
that having an artform studied in school, is a definite sign of its
maturity? It may not help the 'cause', but, it does show people are
listening.
erik g
as for Blue Note, they do have Charlie Hunter, and recently signed
MM&W who put out a 'straight-ahead' album "tonic", no mindless
meandering. And, the Europen arm is the one that releases Erik
Truffaz, those who are trying to look forward, but, you've got to
realize once jazz lost its audience to R&B and Soul, it became the
domain of the White Middle class, who now sustain, the Hip-hoper, or
at least their children do.
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