5 Apr
2003
5 Apr
'03
3:27 p.m.
From Steve Smith
I think the secondary broadsides against Byron and Mark Turner were something to the effect of their overt intellectualism making them more palatable to white critics.
This is a strange volte-face, not to say rather hypocritical from Crouch. As if "overt intellectualism" were a prerogative of white critics! And guess who's citing Wagner and Nietzsche in the liner notes to "Live At Blues Alley", trying to charge Wynton's music (which is great on that record) with as much cultural capital as possible. Even the hyperbole is already there: "With the opening track, Marsalis demotes the avant-garde trumpeters one and all [...]" Regards Franz Fuchs