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

[Michael Biel]

I was prepared to be very upset about this, because Marsalis is one of
the world's greatest doofuses, but you know something, that Spanish fan,
Rafael Gisbert, was right.  This isn't jazz.  In fact, it isn't music. 
It is sh*t.  It is uninspired random noodling that a group of 11-year
olds would be embarrassed to play after three months of music lessons. 
Check this crap out on YouTube.  I've had this bilge on for fifteen
minutes and I am ready to admit that I was the mastermind of 9/11, I
stole the Arbeit Macht Frei sign, I kidnapped Patti Hurst, I was the
grassy knoll shooter, and I leaked the hydrogen bomb plans to Stalin. 
It has that effect on you.

I am going to listen to a test-tones record to try to cleanse my ears.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> Very interesting about Marsalis but one of these days he
> should read "Lost Chords" by Richard Sudhalter.
Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>

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.
>
>









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