Old Downbeat BFTs

[Rabshakeh]

Ethan Iverson, who has an on/off worth reading substack, has done an article with some excerpts from old Downbeat Blindfold Tests.

You can find it here if you want it:

https://open.substack.com/pub/iverson/p/tt-507-blindfold-tests?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=az9yj

Fun stuff. It is amazing how free people were with their opinions in those days. Jazz was a small world then as now and it must have been strange to come out with such aggressive opinions and then have to share a stage with the subject a few days later.

[Dub Modal]

Thanks for the link. It's always hilarious to read how these musicians back then seemed to universally dislike Cecil Taylor's music. 

[mjazzg]

The Redman and Braxton are pretty brutal but I suspect fairly commonly held views at the time