[Dixielandjazz] Why certain things get written badly

Mike mike at railroadstjazzwest.com
Thu Jan 25 07:40:56 PST 2007


Miles has himself been the target of accusations of not being a 
jazz musician when he went into fusion in the 1970s.

Mike





Steve Barbone wrote:

> Surely Miles (who is often wrongly accused of hating Whites largely because
> of out of context quotes) would not have gone there unless he wanted to be
> with Hirt. Same for Terry. Hey, if two great jazz trumpeters went to be with
> Hirt, then one can infer that they wanted to listen to the man play and/or
> talk about jazz, not instrumental pop.
> 
> Those liner notes? Written probably by some wascaly wabbit who saw some out
> of context quotes somewhere and took them at face value. So why would you
> want to read the rest of those, seemingly badly written, liner notes?
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone





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