<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 1/18/03 5:01:58 PM Central Standard Time, barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I'm loving the discussion on Kenton, just as I loved the one on Miles<BR>
Davis. Basically because all sorts of misconceptions arise about both.<BR>
No surprising because I guess these misconceptions arise about all jazz<BR>
musicians.<BR>
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Kenton used "KKK" on his stationary? Nah, never happened. It was his fan<BR>
club that used it. It meant "Keep Kenton Kicking". Was it racist? Maybe,<BR>
but it was not Kenton doing it. Sure most of his fans were white. And<BR>
why not, the music didn't swing, was not danceable and more like a band<BR>
firing an intelligence test at a seated audience.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Aaaah...Steve. the Chicago Symphony doesn't 'swing', it is not danceable and most of the orchestra and it's fans are white. Somehow, in spite of these drawbacks, the CSO manages to play some very worthwhile music.<BR>
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enough said. Jim Beebe</FONT></HTML>