From Alex Reynolds Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 18:57
>>I don't know. I'll probably get flamed but I think 98% of jazz is seriously >>overrated. Mostly you get these suburban PBS yuppies with large jazz >>collections saying how great (insert obscure jazz musician here) is. >>Something about this fetishist, elitist attitude really disturbs me, since >>a large part of how jazz has earned its cachet as "civilized" music is >>through a bunch of rich people kissing up to blacks. > >good thing your argument doesn't draw any parallels to IDM, alex ;P now, now, jeff.. you're just being cynical ;P Alex Reynolds / Biology IT Support SAS Computing University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 V +1 215 573.2818 F +1 215 898.8780 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~reynolda/