Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Chick Corea (actually Kool Jazz and George Wein) Message-ID: <367@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 08:36:42 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.367 Posted: Fri Jul 5 08:36:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 10:05:46 EDT References: <594@vaxine.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 28 > (Incidently, Brown & Williamson Tobacco has de- > cided to get out of the jazz business; this is the last year of > the Kool Jazz Festival. No doubt George Wein can find a new > sponsor. Maybe JVC ... ) Too bad, Kool is/was the only major forum for jazz music to receive even a small piece of mass attention. FLAME BEGINS: As for George Wein, he probably means well, but I feel he is slowly strangling the festival by serving us a rehash of the Jazz at the Philharmonic every year. Oh, some of the concerts are quite good (I remember a Freddie Hubbard-McCoy Tyner-Ron Carter- Elvin Jones that blew the roof off Avery Fisher Hall....) but why does Kool consistently ignore the new traditionalists. Putting the David Murray Octet in Saratoga is tokenism. Where were Henry Threadgill's Sextet, Olu Dara's Okra Orchestra, Jemeel Moondoc, Craig Harris, Amina Claudine Myers, and so many others, any one of which would have been a far better show, providing more challenging AND more entertaining music than Dave Brubeck playing "Take Five" for the 10 zillionth time? FLAME ENDS Did anybody attend any of the Kool events this year? I was on the road during the week (work does get in the way sometimes doesn't it?) and had to miss it all? Particularly, did anybody catch Liberation Music Orchestra at Sweet Basil's? Marcel Simon