At 08:04 PM 2/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 09:28:52 +0000
>>To: Joey Goldstein <joegold@idirect.com>
>>From: "reed" <reed@justjazz.com>
>>Subject: last mail
>
>>Joey,
>>
>>I hope you don't take offense, but I had to
>>reject the last mail you sent.
>>
>>This thread has just gone on and on.
>>
>>I tried to stop it several days ago.
>>
>>I look forward to seeing your future posts.
>>
>>reed
>
>>Reed Kotler
>
>Yes actually I do take offense. Very much so!
>
Seriously?
>I didn't realize that this was a moderated list that was subject to
>censorship by the list owner when someone has a view that critisizes the
>owner's position on an issue. But you are right in trying to arrange for
>this lame thread to die.
>
Well I didnt stop it because I can't take criticism. If I wanted to
do that I would have done it a week ago. I stopped it because
myself and everyone else has had enough .
Running a moderated list is a big pain in the neck. Checking the mail
server 50 times a day is not my idea of a good time. I'd rather be
playing the piano or the guitar or something.
>If we must have a volatile thread here's one that interests me:
>
>Where I come from (Toronto, Canada) some of my non-traditional jazz playing
>friends came up with the term "The Jazz Police" to describe that segment of
>the jazz intelligentsia that has taken it upon themselves to inform the
>public and young music students what is jazz, what isn't, and why some jazz
>is high art and some isn't. There seems to be a large force of Jazz
>Policemen on this list and since I consider myself a jazz musician who
>specializes in that horrible "Fusion" stuff I'm interested in reading the
>opinions of many of you on this topic........
>
>Fusion: Does it suck?..... Why?
>
I'd rather not begin a discussion of what kind of music is good and bad.
To me that is akin to discussing CD's and this is not the place for
that. Rec.bluenote or jazz-l or whatever might be a better forum for that.
If we are going to talk about fusion, I'd prefer to discuss typical
chord changes, improvisation approaches, rhythmic ideas, etc.
This is a technical forum for people creating jazz or teaching others too.
Once it becomes non technical we'll have everyone and their brother
joining and posting all kinds of crazy ill thought out stuff and
having the accompanying constant flame wars.
SInce you know alot about fusion, I'd like to see you post some
technical information about fusion.
I'm particularly interested about typical harmony used in fusion.
Keeping the forum technical also reduces the amount of mail because
it can't be just chat.
There is no bias towards one kind of jazz or another. You are not
the only fusion player on this list. We also have some people that
play very avante garde jazz ala Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman.
reed
>
Reed Kotler
reed@justjazz.com
http://www.justjazz.com