The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[David Morris]

Well my words "up to its nearly non-existent present" implies that, to
a degree, I think that's (Jazz is now dead--its a museum)  true.
Burns' "Jazz" documented the birth and *development* of Jazz, which
did, for the most part, stop developing anything new in the 60's.  As
he also pointed out that was when jazz lost its mass audience, and
rock took over.  Postmodern Jazz, jazz-fusion, and jazz-lite are
hardly developments to be celebrated.  I love all solid jazz, from
dixieland to avante guarde, but it's all essentially stuff pioneered
from the 60's or before.

David Morris

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> The impression given by Burns was that Jazz is now dead--its a museum piece like the Civil War. it died in the early 60s
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> On 2/27/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know how to respond to this sort of complaint except to point
>> out that when staking a point of view it's impossible to please
>> everyone.  Burn's Jazz documentary was very educational, and the fact
>> that he didn't try to encompass all aspects of Jazz up to its nearly
>> non-existent present isn't a fault, IMHO.  It's an aspect of editing.
>>
>> And racism and gun violence was definitely not absent from his documentary.
>>
>> David Morris