on 1/11/2001 7:18 PM, Fred Heutte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > last *40* years of jazz will be compressed into one single episode of > the Ken Burns series?! This doesn't just leave out the "loungy and hip > jazz of the 50s and 60s." It leaves out: [snip] > Pharaoh Sanders, and so much more.
Notable additions in my mind: (Detroit's own) Yusef Lateef and Ronald Shannon Jackson; but then again, there are so many names to mention. FYI: Yusef is playing 2/16 at Orchestra Hall. > And I didn't even > mention Latin jazz, which has had so much history and development since > the late 1950s -- I saw Pete Escovedo's big band play an outdoor gig in > San Francisco last summer that just blew my sox off. Note to 80s babies who didn't know this: Pete is Sheila E.'s papa. Sheila E. of Prince percussion fame. > The post-1960 history is messy, > convoluted, doesn't flow in a single linear direction, doesn't have deep > and common themes I'd wait for time to tell on that one. The huge and common themes that Burns likes to express might not appear for post-modern art forms until 2050 or so. Wait until the Next Big Thing forces us to give it closure and analysis. -- There4IM "Techno Rebels: The background and components of Detroit Techno" http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=there4im
