strong points. can't argue with it. looking back, saying "Hello Dolly" was
the last time "jazz" topped the charts is unforgiveable.
what, exactly was Watermelon Man? And, why not "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)?"
If Hello Dolly is jazz, so is Rockit...
Isn't it?
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>
> Didja ever stop to think that maybe this dropoff was (at least in
> part) precipitated by the self-appointed guardians of the music
> limiting the definition of jazz to the point where it became the loss
> leader?
>
> When Louis Armstrong embraces white popular culture & does "Hello,
> Dolly", it's still jazz, we still get to spend more time on that one
> damn song than on a dozen vital jazz musicians. When jazz artists
> embrace black popular culture in the late 60's/early 70's, it's
> branded pure shucksterism, crass commercial sellout, or at best "just
> R&B".
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> Jason Witherspoon
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