Mingus speaks

Mingus speaks
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Rep-lo a casa en una setmana per Missatger o Eco Enviament*Sobre el libro Mingus speaks de John F. Goodman publicado por California al 2013:
"Bach is how buildings got taller. It´s how we got to the moon." The history of the jazz avant-garde is interesting, even if the music frequently is not. Could a white person have any business writing that history? Or even understanding the music? That´s the kind of question that was being asked in the late 1960s. I didn´t form my opinions on this music based on what Mingus had to say; I came to them after a long period of trying to be sympathetic to the widely advertised intentions, protests, and sounds of much so-called free jazz. One of the problems I had, as our conversations demonstrate, was trying to separate the apparatus of protest from the concerns of music. Mingus always claimed to play "American music," and yet his idea of creating a music to appeal to the spiritual and cultural needs of black people, a revitalized ethnic blues, is an old one in jazz, though not widely recognized. The free-jazzers wanted that too, and Cecil Taylor, for one, tried to bring music to the black masses. Still, it is hard to imagine a worse way to reach large numbers of people than through avant-garde free jazz. Mingus at least thought a broad-based blues might be the answer.El llibre Mingus speaks de John F. Goodman pertany a la matèria
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