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A Critic Is Got To Dream, Boy

Reason Staff | 6.27.2003 3:34 AM

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New at Reason: Stanley Crouch: a man at war with the establishment, an old stick in the mud, a fella you can trust in a world gone mad, or all three? Kerry Howley braves the great man's thunderbolts, and lives to tell about it.

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  1. Todd Fletcher   22 years ago

    "If people want to go out there and play electric music, it doesn't make any difference. Twenty years from now people aren't even going to know that they ever played anything."

    What an extraordinarily stupid thing to say.

  2. Anonymous   22 years ago

    i hate it when black people fuck up classical music

  3. Wexler   22 years ago

    What does Mr. Crouch have to say about the great black musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eric Dolphy, et al who "Pushed beyond swing" and then some? Are these innovators just self-loathing pawns of the whote establishment. And since Wynton Marsalis (unlike Ornette Coleman) plays within the same key, mode, and harmonic frames that came out of Europe, is he bowing to a white aesthetic? What a cracker!

  4. Douglas Fletcher   22 years ago

    There hasn't been any real jazz played by anybody since June 14, 1949.

    And blues? Forget about it. May 7, 1934.

  5. jacob   22 years ago

    i'm not sure, but isn't stanley crouch the name of carries gay friend on "sex and the city"?

  6. Jim Walsh   22 years ago

    OK, help me out here; I'm still a tyro as jazz buffs go. What happend on June 14, 1949...and May 7, 1934...

  7. Purse   22 years ago

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