[Dixielandjazz] Worthless Ellington

[Steve Voce]

Please don't read Rudi Blesh.

It makes you go blind.

Steve Voce

On 13/07/2011 20:55, Marek Boym wrote:

>>
>>
>>> Bill Haesler<bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>  wrote
>>> Marek Boym, in answer to Steve Barbone, wrote [in part]:
>>>> .........Of course, the "mouldy figs" consider anything after the
>>>> Washingtonians worseless.
>>> Dear Marek,
>>> Not this little mouldy old fig.
>>> *>)
>> Amen Bill. IMO anyone who would consider Ellington "worthless" is a damn
>> fool.
> I agree.
> Nevertheless, this was often the case.  Rudi Blesh went even farther
> and said: "as for jazz, the Duke has never played it." (p. 281 of the
> "fourth edition, enlarged, February 1958, printed in England by
> Cassell&  Company Limited).
> BTW, sorry for the typo.
> Cheers,
>
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