[Dixielandjazz] Now You Has Jazz (or maybe not?)

[David Dustin]

Steve Barbone wrote:

³ How dare you categorize "my" definition of jazz when you don't know what
it
is? (Read your own last paragraph below). And now you speak for "the rest of
the world" and its "catholic" view? How absurd is that? ³

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Steve, you appear to be a victim of your own erudition. You are so
over-stuffed with facts and associations dating back to Harlem in the 1940s
-- and evidently in possession of Charlie Barnet¹s lost charts -- that you
are able to connect the dots in ways that others find quirky. And you are
articulate and extraordinarily verbose, which makes your scorched-earth
verbal tsunami all the more insufferable to many.  Someone once said about
Freud: ³Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.² And sometimes Jazz is JAZZ,
regardless of how many mind-games Ellington or Condon or Basie or whoever
felt like playing that day in 1930 when some sycophantic pimp of the music
press was shoving a notebook into his face in front of a bevy of fans.

David Dustin