At 11:20 PM -0800 2/9/01, Leslie N. Shill wrote:
>Mark,
>
>on the one hand it has to be "touche" Keith! On the other hand not everyone
>has the trans-universal overview that someone like Keith has of music. Very
>few people, I would wager, living today have the vast depth and latitude
>that someone like Jarrett must have but this series was not necessarily made
>for these few people. To my mind, this series was made for a people from a
>broader and probably less-informed strata of all the people who might be
>engaged by this history.
>
>I can recall clearly the first time that I heard Keith Jarrett playing solo,
>it was a piece called "Ritooria", if my memory serves me well, off of his
>first solo album on ECM but I really think he was a little harsh in his
>letter to the NY Times.
Someone made the point over on rec.music.bluenote that one of Louis
Armstrong's wives got about as much screen time as Charles Mingus;
Eric Dolphy *wasn't even mentioned*. Please go read some of the
posts over there to get an idea of how painful it is for people
who've loved jazz *as a living art form* for the last 40 years to now
be told that their music-- their lives-- were an unsuccessful detour
on jazz's march to the Übermensch Marsalis.
I find the series indefensible. If they'd just left out the modern
giants, fine, but they actively disparaged them, just as Stanley
Crouch did publicly at a recent awards ceremony. Sickening.
--Jason Witherspoon ICQ #62837760
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