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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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