and we all know his reputation for keeping jazz on the "inside." but did any of you catch the solo he blew on tain watt's "citizen tain" album from a few years back?
a more "stretched" blowing session i have yet to hear! it was excellent, and a real surprise coming from him. makes you wonder if all the posturing and spewing is really more tongue in cheek.
it seems keith jarrett is the only one who's still truly venomous in his assault on jazz and jazz musicians.
i love jazz music in most all of its incarnations, though i tend to gravitate to the more modern, branford-esque stuff. however, i do believe, particularly as musicians, we should be steeped in the history of the music. i've met a lot of musicians who call themselves jazzers, when they haven't even scratched the surface of their instruments. they want to create avant guard compositions, but they never heard 'stella by starlight.'
or you get those who do 'jazz by osmosis.' a classic example is this person who came to my boyfriend for gtr. lessons [boyfriend's a jazz guy; very accomplished] and decided after one theory lesson that "it was stifling to my creativity".
real bullshi t attitude.
but anyhow, i like wynton. i like his opinionated-ness [is that a word?] and i like his music sometimes, too.
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