[Dixielandjazz] Norman Granz

[Steve Voce]

On 06/10/2011 15:40, Marek Boym wrote:
>> OK. Let's keep it on your terms. Milt Jackson and John Lewis (from the MJQ) and Paul Desmond (from Brubeck's 4) were inspired and
inspiring jazz musicians to rank with anyone who played with JATP!

Steve

>> JATP was meant to be pretty much a Roman circus. Norman said to me once that
>> he liked his musicians
>> to be friends off stage, but on stage he wanted blood.
>> The music was mostly designed to be intellectually comparatively
>> unchallenging, so you might find it rabble rousing
> I beg to disagree.  God reads intentions 9and we know waht the raw
> material of the road to hell is).  I judge by results.  And the
> results, for the most part, are great!
>
>
>   compared
>> with the strain that appreciating the music of the MJQ or Brubeck might put
>> on your brain.
> I fpund it boring and bland then, and still do.
>
>> As an experiment you should try to listen to a track by the Miles Davis
>> quintet with Wayne Shorter
> No, thanks.  I am not a masochist!  20 seconds of Wayne Shorter and
> I'll confess the assassination of Kennedy, Lincoln, etc., jsut to stop
> that terrible noise!
>
>
> cheers
>