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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Chick Corea (actually Kool Jazz and George Wein)
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 08:36:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 08:36:42 1985
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>                   (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