What Jazz are you listening to?
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I personally do consider it jazz. But I don't hold to the traditional standings of what jazz is like say Wynton Marsalis. I do understand how it can be consider a fusion album and have no issue with people who call it that, but I feel it is so deeply rooted in jazz and an expansion on what he did with In A Silent Way and then Bitches Brew that it is the evolution of that. On The Corner is probably my favorite Miles album, I'm hoping to find the complete On The Corner Sessions for a reasonable price eventually. The things I love about OTC is the use of space and the underlying rhythm, I can listen to it over and over and never jam the same way.
Miles had a lot to say about those purists especially Wynton in his '89 autobiography. He slammed Wynton Marsalis for talkin bad about his own brother for workin with hip-hop artists and he was mad that they wouldn't consider the music of cats like Bird, Coltrane, Diz, and Louis Armstrong, "classical" music. As if it wasn't good enough or maybe a bit too "black" to earn the same respect as Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart.
Here is an interview with Christian Scott where he kinda goes at Wynton too. Christian is probably my favorite artist so I found this highly entertaining but its a great read regardless.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35665
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35665
