revolutions

[Elissa]

Did y'all just ax the single most revolutionary recording thread? I for one thought it was kinda cool, in spite of how much the historians did protest.

But it does seem to me pretty indisputable that the 1940's, no matter whether you think jazz started the moment Africans hit the N. American shores or not, remain to this day the most revolutionary period in American music, with Klook then Max taking the essence of what Jo Jones and Sid Catlett were doing and expanding on that, with the emphasis on moving the beat to the cymbal and freeing the bass drum, giving birth to independence.

Or do you feel otherwise?