Why Jazz Isn't Cool Anymore

[Larry Kart]

P.S. That Williams poem looks different on the page as he conceived it, but the spacing didn't carry over when I posted it.

Also, I can guess what you have in mind, but what does go on in a feed store that is so enlightening when you figure it out?

Further, if "life writes its own poetry," why do we need music or any other art?

[JSngry]

Further, if "life writes its own poetry," why do we need music or any other art?

Because it's rude not to return calls.

[JSngry]

Also, I can guess what you have in mind, but what does go on in a feed store that is so enlightening when you figure it out?

This past Halloween, my daughter wanted a pair of overalls so she could go as Luigi. Where to go, she asked.

The usual suspects, and my first recommendations, Sears & Wal-Mart, did not carry any in-store (and you know you're living in some kind of World Gone Wrong when your local Wal-Mart doesn't carry overalls...). so I told her to try a feed store. We got one less than 10 minutes from the house, been there forever, back when all Plano was was a farm town. "What's a feed store?", she asked me. "Just go in there, you'll figure it out soon enough," I told her.

Well she found it, and she went in. She called me right away. "What is all this stuff?"

It was then that I realized that although I am in no ways a practitioner of the "rural lifestyle" now or ever, I sure as hell grew up around it, and I sure as hell knew that concrete is not required for life, if you know what I mean. I realized that I had neglected a key part of my daughter's upbringing.

I think it would behoove many adults to spend some time in a feed store too. But definitely the young folk. Between concrete and cyberspace, there's a whole 'nother world that can and should outlive the others if and when it has to.

[JSngry]

And why the feed store and not the farm/ranch, you ask? (or don't?)

Just to show that Nature runs itself, but people always gonna need tools to work with it.

To that end, after the feed store field tip, hit the hardware store. A real one, if you can find it.

[Tom Storer]

Feed stores, huh? I'm afraid it's too late for me. Even if I could find one, I would only be discouraged.

[fasstrack]

Well-trod ground on this forum, to be sure, but it's kicking up a lot of dust on the jazz internets, so thought I'd go ahead and post it here:

Why Jazz Isn't Cool Anymore

BTW, much of this seems either arbitrary (1959? Really?) or very old, old news to me. Nevertheless it seems to be getting some people worked up, as such commentaries usually do.

Yawn. I hear good jazz live every night. Once in a great while I even play some. This Payton kid should get over himself. The world needs his playing more than dumb professed oracle-like scribblings like these.

[fasstrack]

to paraphrase a well known saying, talking about jazz is like lecturing on the social origins of 1920s urban jazz before a classroom of PHD candidates at Columbia University.

Except that the professor has a gig.......

[Tom Storer]

Except that the professor has a gig.......

<rimshot>

;-)

[fasstrack]

Except that the professor has a gig.......

<rimshot>

;-)

Somehow this reminds me of the scene in The Nutty Professor where Kelp (after already having stained his white tux blazer red dipping in the punch bowl) goes a little nuts dancing to the Les Brown band. Warfield yells at him and he replies, saying (roughly)

'I do apologize, Dr. Warfield, but, er, you must admit that last number was certainly a toe-tapper'.....

[fasstrack]

I just read the whole thing. I hope he doesn't play like he writes b/c that post is the kind of shallow self-importance and egotism that almost did kill jazz personified. Also poor writers almost always use vulgarity--as he does here--in place of ideas.

Enough twaddle from various arrested adolescents today. I'm gonna go write a song. Or learn one at least.

[AllenLowe]

I don't know about jazz, but as far as I'm concerned I'm the coolest guy there is. As a matter of fact, I can do anything.

[fasstrack]

I don't know about jazz, but as far as I'm concerned I'm the coolest guy there is. As a matter of fact, I can do anything.

'No you can't'

'Yes I can' (etc.)

'Can you bake a pie? Well neither can I'.......