Embracing entropy

[David Morris]

I agree.  "Modern Improvisation" is about complexity and contrasts not 
entropy.  As for Burn's bias, down here in New Orleans only the first two 
episodes have been shown.  They have very nicely traced the earliest stages 
of the advent and development of Jazz [The rest of the country has a great 
debt to New Orleans].  Have those with criticism of his dealing with Jazz's 
later development already seen these episodes?  If he stumbles at these 
later stages, I would still give him high marks for the series as a whole 
based on the first two.

David Morris

>From: David Simpson
>
>Richard Romeo wrote:
>>The film's aesthetic bias is best exemplified by Albert Murray's on-camera 
>>pronouncement that "you can't embrace entropy." But isn't that what modern 
>>improvisation is largely about?
>
>No way. All art, even post-modern art, is a holding action, a check, 
>against entropy. Bird's solos, Gillespie's on-the-fly improvs, even John 
>Cage's orchestrated silences, have a deep structure, a plan.


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