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unbelievable that cecil and branford are mentioned together on *this* list!! being a lowlee food service waiter in my day(actually nite!) job, i have had the pleasure of waiting on both of these giants of jazz...this was a while ago- branford and marsalis were staying in a room together here at the sfhyatt and they were congenial as hell fwiw.... i had just returned from a concert by cecil and i was waiting on him and he asked what i thought of the show...i told him i was 'enthralled' and he liked that-there were a bunch o' hangers on-like he was JIMI er somebody... and that, dr. and everybody is as a meaningless a post as i can muster. btw i am not bothered by anyones remarks about anything. i think it adds to the whole bouliabaise(dont know how to spell that) of music-its meaning and the beauty of it all... ymmv s > > In a message dated 2/27/05 1:20:20 PM, info@krispenhartung.com writes: > > << funny, I remember Bradford Marsalis > calling Cecil's stuff self indulgent bullshit on the Ken Burns history > of jazz series. >> > > > Yea, I remember being bothered by his remark, I think it was regarding > something about Cecil expecting the audience to do some work and be >prepared > for > difficult listening. > > Branford's scorn and dismissiveness seemed to ignore the history of jazz > development and to be intellectually lazy or perhaps just >anti-intellectual. > So > art is supposed to be instantly familiar and accessible, otherwise it is > "elitist" or merely "pretentious"? He apparently is happy to promote a >lowest > common > denominator approach that panders to an audience and is comfortable >dissing > more adventurous approaches. > > sigh > > > BobC > > > http://www.cdbaby.com/rpcollier > http://trundlebox.iuma.com > http://tinyurl.com/yuru7 >