I agree. Well-presented, deep but entertaining. Like Elson, I've studied a
lot of this stuff but still learned a thing or two. That's always a good
thing.
peace,
R. Scott
framboise@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie N. Shill" <icehouse@redshift.com>
To: "Elson Trinidad" <elson@westworld.com>
Cc: "acid" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: JAZZ
> 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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