[Dixielandjazz] Been gone for 10 months and yet...

[Rebecca Norman Thompson]

 Some things remain the same.  I have been away from DJML since last August
and return to hearing the same arguments as before.  Why debate Mouldy Fig
vs Modernist when THIS IS THE Dixieland Jazz Mailing List and not the
Modernist Mailing List?

Everyone has their own style to which they prefer to listen.  Just leave it
at that.  The music I prefer does not reflect my respect - or lack there of
-- for previous musicians.

Respectfully,

Rebecca Thompson
Flower Mound, TX

-----Original Message-----


The Mouldy Fig v Modernist arguments still appears to rage. I can't get my
head round this at all. To my way of thinking, everything that happened in
jazz up to about 1970 developed out of what went before. It was all the one
music at different stages of development: Horace Silver and Thelonius Monk
(to name just two) couldn't have done what they did without Jelly, James P
and others having done their thing first.