[Dixielandjazz] Good and Bad Music was Charlie Parker

[Fred Spencer]

Dear Mike,
Your belief that the Duke made this comment is what I have always thought.
However I have been unable to verify this. It is not in four books of
musical quotations I have, nor in "Bartletts Quotations". I do not have the
"Oxford". Does anyone know the origin of this quote? If so, please tell us.
Thanks.
Fred
----- Original Message -----

From: "Mike Durham" <mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Good and Bad Music was Charlie Parker


> >Kurt wrote:
> >
> > > Wasn't it Louis Armstrong who said, "There's two kinds of music - Good
> >and
> > > Bad."?
>
> Yes, but he also referred to bop as "That modern malice" and "Chinese
music"
> - maybe he mellowed in later years! Actually, I think it was Duke who said
> the good/bad thing: Louis did, however, famously reply to a lady who asked
> him if jazz was folk music "All music is folk music - I never heard a
horse
> play anything!"
>
> Mike
>
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