life after the death of jazz

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/200...-death-of-jazz/

[BruceH]

The death of jazz? *Yawn*

[Johnny E]

The guy who wrote this (Alex Gelfand) is also the same critic who chose Reptet's "Do This!" top jazz record of the 2006 in Jazziz magazine.

[ep1str0phy]

Folks have been dealing with the dilemma of moot "transgression" for decades--the solution of pluralism is nothing new. I sense the same degree of historical reductionism here that seems to plague most accounts of the modern music scene: we had an exhaustion of available possibilities in the 60's--problematic gap--now we're beginning to look at alternate sources of inspiration. A lot of that is true, but again--no mention of how the AACM, BAG, and their ilk were doing the "polygot" thing immediately after the free generation. We're giving folks like Glasper too much credit here (and I'm sure Douglas, for one, would be the first to say that stylistic omnivorousness is nothing new to improvised music).

Now, to be fair, I'm of the mind that pluralism, reconstruction, and mutual respect of ideas are the only real paths to creative survival in contemporary improvised music. Credit where credit due, though.

Edited May 9, 2007 by ep1str0phy

[John L]

The guy who wrote this (Alex Gelfand) is also the same critic who chose Reptet's "Do This!" top jazz record of the 2006 in Jazziz magazine.

Did "Do This" top just jazz, or other dead musicial genres as well?

[Lazaro Vega]

"By the late 1920s, trumpeter Louis Armstrong had taken the collectively improvised polyphony of early New Orleans jazz and turned it into a soloist’s art. Soon after, swing-era musicians expanded the music’s harmonic palette while introducing ever more sophisticated techniques of arrangement and orchestration."

The second part of that sentance was also happening in the 1920's, well before the Swing Era (which is usually sighted as starting with Goodman's Palamor Ballroom concert).

Then this: "the last great expansion in the basic vocabulary of the music took place over thirty years ago, when a generation of performers wedded the free-ranging approaches of Coleman, Taylor, and others..." Would that be John Colrane, perhaps? Yikes!

Edited May 11, 2007 by Lazaro Vega