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Chas said:Dude, I'm a musician who digs Lester Young, Duke Ellington and company. You figure it out. Like the George Hamilton IV song goes, If You Don't Know, I Ain't Gonna Tell Ya
Some of us dig 52nd Street and uptown, the rest dig something else. Not all swing is jazz. I am a jazz fan. Figure it out. Miller was the shlockmeister from the planet wongo. For me, listening to him is like eating baloney sandwiches when there is steak, crawfish etoufee and caviar to be had. With a $200 bottle of Chateau Margaux to wash it down.
I'm so done with this thread. Enough of the Republican swing music fans. Done.... so done.
"Miller was the shlockmeister from the planet wongo. "
What an original turn of phrase!
I think that I see what you are getting at, but just because music is not exactly JAZZ doesn't mean that it is BAD. Would you fault Mendelsson because he did not write jazz? What about Schnittke? I myself lose interest in jazz music as it more closely approaches "Bop" just as I do for (so called) Classical of the latter part of the last century, and perhaps for the same reason. In both classical and jazz music, as the century wore on the music which appealed cognoscenti became more and more "sophisticated", that is it moved away from a strong emphasis on melody. In the case of both jazz and classical music, much of this move was motivated by a conscious effort to make the music less accessible to the unwashed masses, or the "squares", if you will. the effect of this was to severely limit the audience for both musical forms.
Remember that a number of Jazz masters of the older generation had a great admiration for melodic music. Louis Armstrong professed great admiration for the Lombardo band's arrangements and emphasis on melody, and remember, he enjoyed Miller's music immensely.
Now, the younger generation of Jazz musicians, those coming of age in the 1940's tended to be much less tolerant, and also tended to take a more militantly political view of matters.
Perhaps you should put a stack of Sauter-Finnegan records on your New Orthophonic or your Columbia 360 and relax a bit.