Re: Fusion
Michael J. Crutcher ( crutcher@tiac.net )
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 22:05:47 -0500 (EST)
>
>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?
>
>Regards
>
>Joey Goldstein
>Guitarist/Composer/Bandleader/Teacher
>joegold@idirect.com
>Check out:
>http://www.icom.ca/~freeflt/
I like music. All kinds of music. However, my definition of music may not
be the same as other people's. If it's well played, I like it. This tends
to leave out much of the "lite jazz" stuff, heavy metal, alternative, and
new age stuff. There is good in those categories, but not much, IMHO.
Fusion, if well played, is good stuff.
Mike "No, sir. I wasn't playing the guitar at 4 A.M." Crutcher