By: hurley
Chris says: But don’t the magnificent scope and speed of Coltrane’s meteoric flight across the sky make him, still, the most compelling mystery in American music? And then came Eric Dolphy… Thanks...
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The most difficult questions in jazz center on its loss of appeal to most people. I’d like to hear discussion of: 1) Can music without vocals be popular music anymore? 2) Did the electric guitar,...
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Good questions, avecfrites. 1) The great Leo Kotke still seems to draw an audience. Who else? 2) The electric guitar to my mind the most dominant musical innovation of the 20th century, so you might be...
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My current favorite Coltrane and McCoy Tyner ” Everytime We Say Good-bye” which is a Cole Porter song and I wonder if it’s from the war. Then coincindentally the other night Eric of “Eric in the...
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