Re: (idm) jaz

From Tom Millar
Sent Fri, Jul 9th 1999, 04:26

Yeah, but to a person unfamiliar with the "history" of jazz, Mingus
might sound quite like several hard boppers. 20 years from now people
might just be talking about Kraftwerk or Moroder's disco productions
with what we consider modern IDM.

Mingus did some free jazz stuff as well as bop. His career spanned
several years and he got to play with a lot of genres, from the
straight-ahead swing of "Haitian Fight Song" (my favorite of his) to
solo improvised piano works and other stuff that's closer to what Monk
and others were doing. Monk, Miles and Dizzy also did some
straight-ahead swing blues records, if I recall correctly... (my
favorite stuff by Miles are his ballads, actually).

Exemplifying a period of jazz and being only a member of only one part
of the jazz spectrum are not the same thing. Ellington might be the King
of Swing, but he did Latin stuff too.

Tom