Ken Burns' Jazz

[Samuel Moyer]

On my second day as a P-List member, Richard Romeo sent this post....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Romeo" <richardromeo at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Ken Burns' Jazz


> found this quote telling from a review in today's Village Voice:
>
> Burns can't seem to focus on the astract tendencies of truly modern jazz.
He
> details how Miles Davis's electric fusion was modeled after the appeal of
> artists like Sly Stone, but ignores well-documented connections between
this
> music and contemporary composers such as Stockhausen. 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?
>
> anyone remember the spoken word at the end of Miles' Inamorato on the Live
> Evil record?  ;)
>

I looked up that record.... but it is 1970.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002AH1/qid=999484813/sr=1-43/ref=
sc_m_43/103-9972375-7339816

Searched around to see if Inamorato had been recorded prior to COL49... we
know that TRP liked Jazz....

Thought it might be interesting to find the connection.

Sam