My first response to this first installment was one of enjoyment and
pleasure
It would really be impossible to cover all the greats of the panorama of
jazz and there could be endless arguments over who is worthy of inclusion! I
do really like the idea that more people will be exposed to jazz, even if
they are already public television watchers who probably have the cultural
and intellectual curiosity to know something about jazz already. I truly
hope that this series raises the interest in jazz to an audience beyond the
PBS one, it is mainly non-profit and community and school stations that are
the ones playing jazz. In the larger area of where I live in central
California, our community station (which recently became part of the
California State University system for lack of funds!) is one of the very
few that has more than one or two jazz programs scheduled. Besides my show,
there is only one other one that regularly programs the sort of music that
the people on this list listen and are devoted to.
I say right on to Ken Burns and whoever put up the money tro get this eries
made!
leslie/The Power of Sound/www.kazu.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: JAZZ
> Alrighty, just got done watching the first installment...
>
> I must say, I was very impressed. I took a jazz history class in college
> which introduced me to the basic roots (i.e. early African and European
> influences, Ragtime, etc). I found myself going, "ah!" and "oh!" when they
> presented cleverly-presented facts.
>
> ObAcid-Jazz or any modern club music -- It was interesting to note the
> similarities with the club music of the late 1800s with the music of the
> late 1900s: both are youth-oriented dance music...the part where they
> mentioned the bands would play "hot" music before midnight and do a slower
> blues set is totally like how some DJs would switch styles at a certain
> point in the night...
>
> Also especially interesting how Jazz propagated: how these seminal jazz
> bands toured the US to cities like Chicago, NYC, Kansas City, Oklahoma
> City, Los Angeles -- all of which gave birth to their own forms of jazz,
or
> at least made their own unique contributions to the artform. Later, when
> those Victorola recordings got made, it reached the masses through the
> recorded medium and was able to reach a broader audience...
>
>
>
>
> - 30 -
> : . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
> : . elson@westworld.com : www.westworld.com/~elson
> : . groove to the futurethnic beats of e:trinity at www.e-trinity.org and
> www.mp3.com.etrinity
>
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