At 01:40 PM 2/12/01 -0600, Danny Kramer wrote:
>burns series was for jazz beginners, didnt pretend to be anything but. and
>in response to the series, i have overheard conversations on jazz from
>many unlikely corners - local television talking about the jazz scene in
>the community (chicago), jazz cd displays up in the front of music shops
>like virgin, tower, borders - selling much jazz.
>
>and that's very cool.
>
>you know there's gonna be a lean towards the people who actually send in
>something when pbs does its membership drives -- aka the 'hello dolly'
>crowd. would i love to see an entire episode dedicated to grover
>washington, jr or the blackbyrds? you know it - but the more jazz on
>mainstream tv the better. its not for me, its for (a generic)
>them. ramsey needs to relax. i mean, please.
>
>nuff 'said.
Okay-- how would you feel if it was your life's work that got shitcanned in
the last episode?
And the fact that it's for beginners makes it okay for them to pollute
neophytes' minds w/the notion that 70's jazz is a bunch of crap? The fact
that it is for beginners just makes their heavy-handed bias, & their
slagging of music they don't "get", that much worse.
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