[Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz

[fred spencer]

The explanation is that Robert S Gold misquoted his reference - it was nothing
to do with me, which is why I always try to use material where I am able to cite
the source of any quote I use. Is there another page close to p. 24 from which
it could have come? Having said that, I think Gold should perhaps be forgiven if
there are a few errors in the 3,000 or more excerpts quoted in his book. I think
many jazz authors will tell you how easy it is to make mistakes - I know from
experience in writing my own book, "Jazz and Death. Medical Profiles of Jazz
Greats", how true this was during the course of several reviews by the press and
impartial referees. You are fortunate to have a 1926 "Melody Maker" to read, I
wish I had. All the best.
Fred

Tony Davis wrote:

> I'm puzzled by Fred Spencer's reference, under the above subject heading, to
> "The Melody Maker, Jan., 1926, p. 24".  I have the issue in front of me, and
> on page 24 appears an article by Hubert Bath, entitled "How To Read Music At
> Sight", which contains no reference to "Straight Ahead Jazz".  Can you
> explain, please, Fred?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fred spencer" <drjz@bealenet.com>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Straight Ahead Jazz
>
> > The Melody Maker, Jan., 1926, p. 24 - "...To play the music in a
> continuously
> > exciting. unadorned manner: frequently hortatory"(Robert S. Gold, "Jazz
> Talk",
> > 1975). I don't recall coming upon this phrase in any other sense,
> but.....?
> > To save some of you from resorting to a dictionary, which I had to do ,
> > "hortatory" means "encouraging, inciting, exhorting, urging to a course of
> > conduct or action", which to me doesn't mean anything concrete in this
> > setting.
> > >From the same book - "Mainstream...jazz that has roots in the swing
> > period...an intermediate position between the traditionalists and the
> > modernists". And "coined in the 1950s by historian Stanley Dance...'a kind
> of
> > jazz which, while neither "traditional"  nor "modern",is better than
> both.'
> > (Peter Clayton and and Peter Gammond. "The Guinness Jazz Companion",
> 1989).
> > But, perhaps more to the point, more on "Mainstream" in Gold - "These
> labels
> > are normally manufactured by critics to bring some sort of jazz they like
> to
> > the attention of more people" (Jazz News, 16 Aug, 1961, p. 10). Cheers to
> that
> > and for 2003.
> > Fred
> >
>
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