[78-L] fwd: Marsalis makes the world safe for pure jazz

[simmonssomer]

Very interesting about Marsalis but one of these days he should read "Lost 
Chords" by Richard Sudhalter.

Al Simmons

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Jazz Promo Services wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/21/wynton-marsalis-jazz-purist-fan
>
> Wynton Marsalis seeks purist fan . . .
> The legendary jazz musician wants to give a present to the jazz buff in
> Spain who complained to the police that the music at a gig wasn't 'jazz'
> – and has asked the Guardian to find him. Problem is, we can't . . .
>
>
> Related Story
>
> Found: the jazz purist sought by Wynton Marsalis
> Jazz websites rattle with fierce debate after Wynton Marsalis offers
> present to fan who complained at Larry Ochs gig
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/blog/2009/dec/21/jazz-purist-found-wynton-marsalis
>
>
> Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis has come under criticism for supporting
> Gisbert's complaint. Photograph: PR
>
> Well, that didn't take long. If the Guardian's crowd sourcers can spend
> hours trawling through _Tony Blair's complex accounts_ for the reward of
> a Steve Bell cartoon, then the offer of a deluge of Wynton Marsalis
> recordings mentioned in _Shortcuts this morning_ was bound to have an
> instant impact.
>
> The jazz legend wanted to send a large part of his 70-plus catalogue
> of recordings to the anonymous Spaniard who_ called police to a jazz
> festival because the music being played was not, he insisted, jazz.
> Marsalis just needed to find him. Now Rafael Gisbert, a jazz purist from
> the Madrid dormitory town of Alcorcon, has stepped forward.
>
> Credit goes to our friends at El País newspaper, who shared this
> morning's story with us. "All I wanted was my money back," Gisbert tells
> me. "I'm honoured that a great jazzman supports me."
>
> Marsalis's people are today being a little coy. "Wynton never planned on
> it going public," says Jono Gasparro, the star's assistant, who asked
> the Guardian to help track Gisbert down. "All I know is that he wanted
> to send him some music."
>
> Perhaps the coyness is because jazz websites are rattling with fierce
> debate over the time-worn question of "what is jazz". Marsalis has
> offended a few people, not least the musicians in the Larry Ochs Sax and
> Drum Core who were playing when Gisbert called the cops.
>
> Scott Amendola, one of Ochs's drummers, accuses Marsalis of seeking
> cheap publicity. He suggests we write something about all those who
> disagree with the Marsalis view of jazz and about how the trumpeter
> hurts "thousands of other 'jazz' musicians in the world".
>
> Marsalis has Gisbert's phone number and email address. It's his move.
>
>