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Tradition?...

Posted by musetap (A) on November 4, 2017 at 11:40:03

In Reply to: Why play retro music in 2017...? posted by andy evans on November 3, 2017 at 04:29:47:

There's a long tradition of jazz artists interpreting tunes from the "golden age" of the American Songbook.
If they have something to add to the tune (frequently) then I think it's a fine thing.

If not, well, that's life (that's what they all say).

Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Cassandra Wilson and Miles Davis
(amongst many others) have done this successfully while still moving the art form forward.

Monk.

IMO, Ella Fiztgerald and say, Diana Krall have not.

There are a LOT of others on that list.

As far as The Sound of Surprise, the surprise in some
cases may be that some folk can actuallly make it through the tune.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure

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