[Dixielandjazz] Jazz and classical

[James O'Briant]

Anton Crouch compared:


> Stan Kenton - Bruckner


This one doesn't hold water for me. 

Yes, superficially they both wanted large, full sounds from their
ensembles. 

But Kenton was an innovator.  Bruckner was so intent on "following
the rules" that later in life he went back through all of his
works, note by note, to be sure that there were no parallel
fourths or fifths, which weren't allowed under the rules of
harmony.

I'd say that Kenton was closer to the pre-dodecaphonic Schoenberg
(i.e., Schoenberg before he started using his 12-tone system).

Jim O'Briant
Tuba
Gilroy, CA