Ugh, sooo sick of racists with inflated “estimation(s) of (their) own aesthetic taste” spewing their bullshit beliefs. Hatred is fucking boring and teeeedious, and it’s clear to me it’s why humanity can’t have nice things.
Anywho, plenty of lines I’ll want to be citing you for in this one, but my favorite is “Grandpa longs for the old days, when everything was new”
Quaffed down 400 pages of mixed insights and hatred from a frustrated racist, then served up an unsparing, astute analysis of the whole for a pretty good read.
Wow. Just wow. Did he talk to any black musicians about this thesis of his, or just pull it out of his ass? When does he think jazz started going downhill?
Ugh, sooo sick of racists with inflated “estimation(s) of (their) own aesthetic taste” spewing their bullshit beliefs. Hatred is fucking boring and teeeedious, and it’s clear to me it’s why humanity can’t have nice things.
Anywho, plenty of lines I’ll want to be citing you for in this one, but my favorite is “Grandpa longs for the old days, when everything was new”
Hm…
Quaffed down 400 pages of mixed insights and hatred from a frustrated racist, then served up an unsparing, astute analysis of the whole for a pretty good read.
Write some more!
Wow. Just wow. Did he talk to any black musicians about this thesis of his, or just pull it out of his ass? When does he think jazz started going downhill?
He talks about the 80s as the downturn, but it’s weird because he mostly just skips the 70s altogether…
He could be right about the 80's, but I remember jazz going strong in NY in the 70's with the loft scene, and Latin jazz.
oh , the 70s was great. and there was lots of interesting stuff in the 80s!
Okay- I'll avoid that one...