Is Somebody Kidding?

[alocispepraluger102]

  On 8/10/2011 at 8:08 PM, AllenLowe said:

she may be capable of very good playing - it's that Newport broadcast of "world" music - just shallow stuff, with not a clue of how to make that kind of music interesting. I found it offensive.

very rarely do i find any 'world' music interesting.

what i usually hear is just a whole lot of homogenized nothing.

'world' music is really just a 'clever' way to avoid using the obscene term 'jazz', a modern day marketing and financial disaster.

Edited August 10, 2011 by alocispepraluger102

[Hot Ptah]

  On 8/10/2011 at 8:08 PM, AllenLowe said:

she may be capable of very good playing - it's that Newport broadcast of "world" music - just shallow stuff, with not a clue of how to make that kind of music interesting. I found it offensive.

I have never heard the Newport broadcast of world music. When I heard her live, she played straight ahead jazz.

[AllenLowe]

not necessarily - though I agree with you that it's usually flattened out into nothingness. But it can be done - check out a recording I did about 20 years ago called "New Tango." The idea is to make it into something dense and multi-layered, as actual world music really is (also helps to have Julius Hemphill).

there's some samples at www.allenlowe.com

Regina hasn't a clue.

[alocispepraluger102]

  On 8/10/2011 at 8:47 PM, AllenLowe said:

not necessarily - though I agree with you that it's usually flattened out into nothingness. But it can be done - check out a recording I did about 20 years ago called "New Tango." The idea is to make it into something dense and multi-layered, as actual world music really is (also helps to have Julius Hemphill).

there's some samples at www.allenlowe.com

Regina hasn't a clue.

thanks.

i will do that a wee bit later.

there are, of course, a few notable exceptions(cherry).