Monk Liner Notes

[medjuck]

7 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

Those are genius notes, the Monk/Hardin ones are pretty good too.

 

Lee Morgan, If I Were...

The worst jazz album notes from the '70s are ones on reissues that piss and moan about fusion when it's totally irrelevant to the subject at hand.

True, but not just about fusion: I've read notes where the writer took advantage of his platform to attack all kinds of music that was irrelevant to the music at hand. 

[danasgoodstuff]

56 minutes ago, medjuck said:

True, but not just about fusion: I've read notes where the writer took advantage of his platform to attack all kinds of music that was irrelevant to the music at hand. 

Yes, free jazz and pop of various sorts were often targets.  And on organ dates, weirdly enough, other organ players were often dissed.