on 7/6/02 9:43 AM, Ryan Novak at ryan_novak@yahoo.com wrote:
Yeah, if some of us are claiming to not be thinking of newness as the supreme virtue, I don't buy it. But it's weird too because only what's old is new I guess. Ornette and Cecil will wear the new tag for the rest of their lives. Ayler will always wear it too, and he's dead. In that way (taken to the extreme), it hardly matters if Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, etc. is alive or dead, which stinks for them- they get plenty of respect, but it's mostly based on stuff done decades ago. There is a double-standard, you're so right. Avant-garde is just another genre name now and there are many working in it who are not the originators and are doing a great job.
----Ryan Novak
It reminds me of calling Nirvana "alternative". Someone made the remark, "When you're selling 5,000,00 records, the only thing you're an alternative to is poverty." skip h