[Dixielandjazz] NY Times Review of New Smithonian Jazz CD issue

[Stephen G Barbone]

Ben Ratliff reviews the new 6 CD issue form the Smithsonian  
Institution called: "Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology". Much too long  
to print on the DJML, it is available at:  (Or email me and I send it  
off list)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/arts/music/jazz-the-smithsonian-anthology-out-march-29.html?ref=music

The article title is: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly

Some excerpts from Ratilff include from the beginning:

"Look out: there's a new jazz canon coming toward you."

to the end: (there was a 47 member advisory panel putting it together)

"What I’m saying is: If ever there was a place for style to follow  
subject, for form to follow function, this is the place. A jazz  
anthology has got to have spark and tension and originality. In order  
for jazz to feel like an open subject, we need more challenging  
suppositions about it, whether they translate as pluralistic or  
exclusive. But perhaps this just can’t be done by committee. I’ve  
never heard good jazz from a 47-member band."

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband