from freak fighter to lamp lighter

OccultHawk · 06-23-2018, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

What's wrong with Ken Burns?

If you’re going to get all those resources to make a supposedly definitive documentary on jazz it is your responsibility to understand that free jazz is the ultimate artistic conclusion that jazz was building to from the beginning. Burns never knew **** at all about jazz and uses Wynton and Branford and some bull**** conservative critics as his guideposts.

Not only is free jazz not properly represented but Cecil Taylor is in particular disrespected. Idgaf what the Marsalis brothers think. I often say musicians are the last people you should ask about music because they always have these creative goggles on. Not every musician but in general.

But anyway in the documentary Branford calls Cecil’s music “self indulgent bulls hit” and then some critic concurs.

The f ucking thing about it is Cecil Taylor is (was) the exact opposite. His music, especially live is the most giving and self sacrificing music ever made. Ever. No one ever gave more.

When you make a documentary about jazz you make it clear that Cecil Taylor stands on TOP of the f ucking mountain. Disrespecting Cecil Taylor shows the same lack of understanding as disrespecting Duke Ellington would. So that’s why f uck Ken Burns.

It disgusts me that Cecil probably watched that garbage. PBS and all of them should be embarrassed and ashamed.