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

[Julian Vein]

Cary Ginell wrote:
The problem I have with the so-called "free jazz" is that it doesn't 
have the element common to other forms of jazz: a groove. If a Cecil 
Taylor fan can find a groove in his music, more power to him, but I've 
sampled quite a bit of it and just do
  n't care for it. Maybe I'm not "deep." Maybe I can't see the poetry in 
Coltrane's late-career squawks. But that's fine. I won't deny them their 
place in jazz. But I will deny them a place on my shelves. Even so, I 
won't condemn an entire period without cause. That's why I love Eric 
Dolphy and the work he did on Coltrane's "Africa Brass" sessions on 
Impulse. There is some of it that is accessible to someone like me. So I 
keep listening.

Cary Ginell
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I'm not sure what you mean by "groove", but Taylor's music is not random 
as it may appear to some. Compare his solo on "E.B." (Candid) with a 
solo he plays with Ayler on the Revenant box set. They're virtually 
identical--when I heard the latter I was able to whistle along with it!

I only got to hear "Africa Brass" properly in recent years, and found it 
was a disappointment, in that there is no "punch line" to the 
performance, it just drifts on and on. Regarding his Impulse! quartet 
recordings, I was playing these recently and thought to myself, "this is 
pop music!" They came in the aftermath of his Atlantic "My Favorite 
Things". Something akin to Jonah Jones's "Muted Jazz". And McCoy Tyner's 
piano playing is always a pain in the butt.

I have most of Coltrane's work, but don't necessarily like it all--much 
of it was purchased because it was cheap. Pruning time will come eventually.

      Julian Vein


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