<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Marek,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While I appreciate your postings here, I find your musical limitations disqualify you from offering any cogent assessment of jazz artists who reach beyond rather basic entertainment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Harry James was a master trumpeter and capable of a wide range of artistic expression.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">His massive discography speaks volumes to his scope.Were he alive today, he might have put out a big band hip-hop recording ~~~<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 6, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Marek Boym <<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" class="">marekboym@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 23:24, Stan Brager <<a href="mailto:stanbrager@gmail.com" class="">stanbrager@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Harry James was not always associated with swing era jazz. In his later<br class="">
years, his music played more modern jazz </blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have never heard James live, but I've heard his later recordings. So, true, it was not always swing era jazz, but modern? I'd say sweet, even syrupy, but modern?</div><div class="">Many years ago a Canadian journalist was rather upset when we referred to Harry James as a jazz musician. "What? He and his terrible dance band trumpet?" Of course we right away started playing James' old records as a blindfold test. He inferred who it was from the context, but said he had never heard James playing like that. I ave some small (and big) band later recordings, with Willie Smith and Corky Corcoran, and they are anything but modern!</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>