[Dixielandjazz] Re: JOSHUA REDMAN, Jazz Messiahs, etc.

[Steve barbone]

Charles Suhor at csuhor at zebra.net wrote: (polite snip)
 
> On a different tangent--an interesting inference that can be drawn from
> the talk, widely accepted I think by jazz historians, is that the habit
> of looking for a new "giant" who'll move jazz in transforming ways (as
> in Louis, Bix, Eldridge, Diz, Miles....) is now gone. What's happened
> since Coltrane and Ornette is interesting syntheses of what came
> before, soemtimes fusion with non-jazz styles, represented by fine
> artists like Lovano, Redman, Wynton Marsaslis, etc. Some lament the
> lack of yet another jazz-redefining genius, but where we are seems to
> be the natural evolutionary spot, nothing wrong with it, because what's
> happening is still exciting music.

Charlie & Listmates:

Personally, I believe the early death of Clifford Brown robbed "Jazz" of the
superstar who would have been the next mover & shaker. Natural evolution of
Louis to Dizzy to Fats Navarro and then Brownie.

I still marvel at his Glenn Gould type of playing the notes. Each note was
so firmly attacked. I often wonder who, if either was aware of the other,
influenced whom.

Brownie, a largely forgotten genius who had a unique way of making the
improvisational changes and attacking each note. He had his own voice which
was so very different from everyone else, yet you could hear the evolution.

Miles became a Pop Star, Brownie would have made Jazz very different, IMO.

Cheers,
Steve