imeanyou Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 We need a book, not a tome. A real book that gives broader context and scholarly researchful insight. If it's real, it can be quantified, and since jazz influence is being posited as being in fact being real, it is time for science to step up to the spotlight and do its thing for the benefit of humankind now. And if fails - then this whole "jazz influence" thing has just been a misperceived romanticized perception of a quantifiable social behavioral and/or phenomenon. That too, then, should be written as a book, lest there be debate about facts. We need a book. Now more than ever, before this thing gets out of hand. Does Ken Burns write books? I'm sure he knows a few people with 'jazz' bona fides who could help him out. Know what I'm sayin'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 We need a book, not a tome. A real book that gives broader context and scholarly researchful insight. If it's real, it can be quantified, and since jazz influence is being posited as being in fact being real, it is time for science to step up to the spotlight and do its thing for the benefit of humankind now. And if fails - then this whole "jazz influence" thing has just been a misperceived romanticized perception of a quantifiable social behavioral and/or phenomenon. That too, then, should be written as a book, lest there be debate about facts. We need a book. Now more than ever, before this thing gets out of hand. You're kidding, right? If not, I'd say that such a book, like this new one about Bud Powell http://jazztimes.com/articles/97283-the-amazing-bud-powell-black-genius-jazz-history-and-the-challenge-of-bebop-guthrie-p-ramsey-jr would be worthless unless it too had "an attitude rooted in critical-theory aesthetics." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Louis Bix Duke Hawkins Lester Christian Blanton Bird Miles Coryell Eddie Jefferson That's eleven. I forgot Bud Powell and Ornette. That's thirteen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelz777 Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 We could blow this wide open and say, pick the top 3-5 most influential on each instrument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnblitweiler Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 Least influential great artist: Herbie Nichols Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 We could blow this wide open and say, pick the top 3-5 most influential on each instrument. That's the only was such a listing would make sense to me, as complex as the history of jazz became ove the decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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