[Dixielandjazz] Enjoyable music

[Steve Barbone]

Jerry Brown <jazzjerry at btinternet.com> wrote (polite snip)

> This is all getting very silly particularly as
> practically all the music played by Ellington and
> Whiteman (both unfortunately given to
> over-pretentiousness on occasions) is very enjoyable.
> 
Hear hear, Jerry. That is the bottom line. It is music and it is enjoyable.
Sometimes both Ellington & Whiteman played jazz and sometimes not. It is as
simple as that. If you choose to call all of it jazz, and others do not,
that's fine too. 

Who among us, is not given to over-pretentiousness?

BTW, speaking of Ellington. He wrote an article for "Music Journal" in 1962,
without (quoting Dave Dustin here) "some sycophantic pimp of the music press
shoving a notebook in his face" that: "Rock & Roll is the most raucous form
of jazz, beyond a doubt; it maintains a link with the folk origins, and I
believe that no other form of jazz has ever been accepted so
enthusiastically by so many."

Now there's a catholic view of "Jazz". :-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone