<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Marek,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As a 74-year-old well-educated professional musician who can read, write, play & produce anything from classical to jazz to pop,</div><div class="">I do lose patience with pompous amateurs who complain about things they don’t understand or respect.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I’m not patronizing at all. I’m just calling-out your musical limitations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everybody has them. Even me. I like so much of all music that it prevents me from focusing on just one kind -</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are great jazz musicians I don’t like, but I respect them musically. Miles Davis being one. While I respect Miles as a musician, I find his documented abuse of women and fellow musicians appalling.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since you only reply to patronizing posts, I don’t expect to hear from you anymore on this topic.<br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class=""><br class="">Andrew</div></div></div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 7, 2020, at 2:15 AM, 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 class="">Hello Andrew,</div><div class="">We are not the only people who disagree, and shall remain so. <br class=""></div><div class="">Harry James was indeed a master trumpeter, and you are probably right - "
Were he alive today, he might have put out a big band hip-hop recording - he was commercial enough.</div><div class="">As to basic entertainment - I beg to disagree. I don't like the "showy" parts of live music, only honest playing. But I am old enough to realize the necessities of business. Working musicians cannot depend on jazz fans alone.</div><div class="">Your patronizing tone makes me wonder whether you are qualified to offer "any cogent assessment of jazz artists." To you, if one's opinion differs from yours, one has no idea what he (or she) is talking about. I have had the MISFORTUNE (yes, indeed!) to hear them all, except the really young ones - Miles, Brubeck, Ornette, Wayne Shorter, Coltrane- you name them. Some - before I had even heard the name of Wild Bill Davison. It took me quite a few years to separate the grain from the chaff, and whatever you say I am not going back to chaff again!</div><div class="">Had it not been for the patronizing tone, I wouldn't have replied to your post - I've been through this so many times before! Because there is room for all kinds in this wide world.<br class=""></div><div class="">Stay healthy.</div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Marek<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 02:02, Andrew Homzy <<a href="mailto:andrew.homzy@gmail.com" class="">andrew.homzy@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"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" 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 class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 6, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Marek Boym <<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">marekboym@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><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" target="_blank" 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></div></blockquote></div></div>
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