<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12596">Ken being knowledge you can guess Kenless </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12607" dir="ltr">and Bums is a rewriting of BURNS </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12598" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12608" dir="ltr">WHICH MAY clue some people in to the fact that I have been watching the Ken Burns documentary of DockYourTail film series on British Freeview TV all Easter Monday. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12599" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12609" dir="ltr">I should imagine that for people who like and revere Donald Trump the style of general commentary could please them if used in an excessively laudatory documentary on Donald Trump, the sort of thing so over the top it could be taken for satire. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12600" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12595" dir="ltr">Jehu Roadman it was who delivered the emetic exequy at the end, with a lot of drivel about Jazz being combined with different music.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12594" dir="ltr">Teaching granny to suck eggs is one thing, but when shallow sub-genres of pop are mistaken for anything half the depth of jazz it's rather more having granny give birth to great-grandchildren of hers, artificial insemination of course but with serioius doubts about a supposed integrity of egg ... </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12593" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12466" dir="ltr">Where is jazz going?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12465" dir="ltr">This is a silly question based on bad mathematics. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12464" dir="ltr">I mean, only a small minority of jazz performances are by funeral marching bands... </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Surely a great deal of what has mattered in jazz has been an advance of something already there,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12615" dir="ltr">and an arrest of a process as natural as ... take the case of Doc Cheatham.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12601" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12616" dir="ltr">A natural development of Doc's case when he had lung trouble in the early 1930s would have silenced his trumpet then. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12631" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12617" dir="ltr">An intelligent course was however preferred and applied </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12632" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12618" dir="ltr">Rumours of the whereabouts of Gabriel's horn might be worth checking,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12602" dir="ltr">but a huge raspberry on trombone should be applied to some sanctimonious claptrap</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12619" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522694892555_12622" dir="ltr">HALLELUJAh (postpone amens anyway)!</div></div></body></html>