<div dir="ltr"><div>You and your banjos again, Steve. No matter how many times I have written - on and off-list - that the banjo is NOT my favourite instrument, and that I prefer rhythm sections with a guitar rather than a banjo, it doesn't stick. Although today I did listen to a group with a banjo, The Clyde Valley Stompers, I also listened to Buddy Tate and Buck Clayton (sorry, Steve, no banjos there).</div><div>Ah, yes, to the Gillespie 1948 concert at Salle Pleyel in Paris (any idea who the alto sax soloist is? I'd go for Howard Johnson, but I don't know John Brown, so it's difficult to say).</div><div>Oh, and yes. I do know who Andrew Homzy is. And I know that you have been writing for the Jazz Journal for many years (from inception?). But that does not mean that you must be right, and anybody who's opinions are different is wrong. Whatever you say, I still cannot stand Freddy Hubbard or Wayne Shorter of Courtney Pine. Full stop.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Marek<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 18:34, Steve Voce <<a href="mailto:steve.voce84@googlemail.com">steve.voce84@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's very obvious, Marek, that you have no idea who Andrew Homzy is, or of his qualifications. Put down that banjo and look him up on the Internet.</div><div>Steve<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:56 AM Marek Boym <<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" target="_blank">marekboym@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Andrew,</div><div>We are not the only people who disagree, and shall remain so. <br></div><div>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>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>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>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></div><div>Stay healthy.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Marek<br></div><div><br></div><br><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" target="_blank">andrew.homzy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello Marek,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Harry James was a master trumpeter and capable of a wide range of artistic expression.</div><div><br></div><div>His massive discography speaks volumes to his scope.Were he alive today, he might have put out a big band hip-hop recording ~~~<br><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br>Cheers,<br><br>Andrew<br><br><br></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 6, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Marek Boym <<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" target="_blank">marekboym@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><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">stanbrager@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></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>
years, his music played more modern jazz </blockquote><div><br></div><div>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>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></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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