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[Big Beat Steve]

1 hour ago, Brad said:

Listening to free or avant garde has never provided me with any pleasure. The ones I love are the ones you mentioned plus soul jazz. 

+1   

Broadly speaking ...

But of course tastes do differ, and I realize there are those who feel they have exhausted the kicks they got out of the styles of jazz Peter Friedman named. But from a certain point beyond that (beyond the "canon" of Free Jazz of the 60s, that is) you are bound to get into the realm of "if they don't know how to call that music they'll call it jazz. But is it still jazz and why call it jazz in the first place if those who insist on calling it jazz despise so vehemently what came before it in jazz, stylistically speaking? A case of usurpation, maybe?" 

But this is getting us far away from the music of Charlie Parker, isn't it?

Yet isn'it it amazing that while Bebop definitely upset the world of jazz (making it seem like jazz had burst apart and never was going to be put together again) some 80 years ago, Bebop has become part of the evolutionary continuum of jazz many, many decades ago, whereas what happened and continued with Free Jazz and the avantgarde AFTER, say, the 60s, is still a subject of never-ending controversy even today, some 50 years later? Could it be that there IS a limit to what you can squeeze into even a BROAD stylistic category? 

(Sorry for this O.T. remark ... )

Edited 5 hours ago by Big Beat Steve

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