Leta€(TM)s Compare Your Average Jazz Cat To Those With Classical Gas
Categories: All About Jazz
This question goes way back, but is still relevant in 2012: Who’s the better musician–a jazz or classical player? I remember talking to someone, about someone, and the cat asking: Is he jazz or legit?
For those of you who don’t know what Mort Weiss is about, I will restate that when I use the word jazz, I’m talking about America’s only indigenous art form (sorry, baseball isn’t) circa 1900-1960. I also recommend the reading of my previous article: On the State of Jazz: Coltrane Clones and the Noose of Technology.) Yeah, Down Beat magazine said in a July 2010 article about me: "Mort Weiss has some hard-boiled ideas about what constitutes jazz." (I sure as hell do.) In the same article, they also used words like "tour-de-force performance" and "remarkable achievement"–so, now you know how great I am and how valid my observations are…