I'm sorry but i have to say that i like trad jazz and so does my dad. We
like Glenn Miller, Acker Bilk and that other bloke thingy Goodman...i like
any jazz in fact apart from all that BBC two arty farty stuff they'd play in
the 80s on suitably arty programmes of chairs in a darkened room with a
woman and a scarf dancing around it like a demented stork
>From: "Paul Secular" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Trad vs. Modern
>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:52:29 GMT
>
>>From: MISA CHALLINGSWORTH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Just a coincidental note to this whole jazz issue. Here's a quote from
>>"The
>>Beatles" authorized biography by Hunter Davies:
>>
>>(John Lennon) "We were always anti-jazz. I think it is shit music, even
>>more
>>stupid than rock and roll, followed by people like students in cheap
>>pullovers. Jazz never gets anywhere, never does anything, it's always the
>>same and all they do is drink pints of beer
>>Not that I agree with what he's saying, but it's an interesting point of
>>view.
>
>1) John Lennon was a Ted/Rocker in those days who listened to Elvis
>Presley.
>2) John is referring to Trad jazz I believe.... just listen to that
>description of 'scruffy students' - not exactly Dean Swift...
>3) The Beatles were never mods.
>
>Modern jazz is a truly amazing form of music. Everyone on this list who are
>slagging off 'jazz' seem uninformed...... mods don't like 'jazz' just as
>they don't like 'pop' or 'beat'........
>
>I've not yet heard anything more stylish than Mose Allison, Jimmy
>Withersoon, Booker T, Jimmy Smith........
>
>Get it??????
>
>Paul
>
>PS. 'Non-intellectual mod' = scooter boy
>PPS. That last comment was not meant to be taken seriously - but you know
>what I'm getting at don't you?
>
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