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Angelus wrote:
'Why is it that socialists writing about Jazz always stop with the
mid-60s and Coltrane and Coleman (sometimes Archie Shepp), always within
the context of the American civil rights movement?
They never write about the last 40+ years of Jazz history, except to
contrast the revivalism of Wynton Marsalis with the 60s "New Thing" and
paint it as analogous to neo-conservative politics.
No mention ever of the AACM, Anthony Braxton, all the great stuff that
came out on Black Saint/Soul Note and HatArt in the 70s and 80s, John
Zorn and the downtown New York scene of the 80s, millenial Chicago Jazz
around Vandermark/Hamid Drake/Fred Anderson, or any of the (rather
heavily political in many cases) European free improvisation milieu in
Germany (Brötzmann, Schlippenbach, the FMP label), Great Britain (Evan
Parker, AMM, Derek Bailey) or Holland (ICP, Willem Breuker), or the
contemporary AMM-inspired electro-acoustic improv in Berlin (Axel
Dörner, Andrea Neumann), Vienna (Fennesz, Dieb13, the Mego label) Tokyo
(Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide) and Britain (John Butcher, Rhodrie
Davies, all the stuff on the Another Timbre label)?
Pretty much the only Marxist I know of who even seems to be aware that
there's been improvised music in the last 40 years is Ben Watson.'
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Fighting words, comrade- not to mention a display of euro-provincialism.
This year's Vancouver Jazzfestival included among others: Helene
Labarriere Quartet, IPA, Bennick/West/Ex, Ig Henneman Sextet, the Hexen
Trio [Plimley/Guy/Niggli]-- as well as Vancouver improv standouts like
Francois Houle, Peggy Lee, Tony Wilson, Gord Grdina [who have all played
with folks you mention]. And for Marxists who know what's happening, you
can add Tony Smith.
michael
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Michael A. Lebowitz
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Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
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