Well yes, Doug, jazz had its cultural moment , in the 1920s-30s, it brought
syncopation with it, it had its glaring virtuosi in its youth, and its
experts in its decline , but musically it's a minor form really, unlike the
blues which reached through its limitations to greatness at times. Jazz
declined into big bands and be-bop and super-pseud art house and all that
was left was some moody night club tunes.
Radio 3 though, and Patrick's Daily Mail editorial worthy sneer at it,
isn't just some Brit thing. Its fate is symptomatic of the attack on
intellectual life that is going on around the Anglophone West. Among other
things btw it's the only broadcaster here that gives any serious space to
poetry. Radio 4 does have a sort of stab at poetry but the results are not
happy.
Best
David
On 12 Sep 2018 7:18 pm, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
OK, you Brits can hash this out. I call David on ‘jazz,’ though, If it’s
Kenny G, then sure: terrible. But there’s a lot of jazz, both from the past
& from now that still kicks, & catches my eardrums (however much I now
prefer a quieter kind more of then in the past).
Doug
> On Sep 12, 2018, at 11:06 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> True, Tim, that's had an impact of R3 too, which seems to be compelled to
> spend 'peak hours' pretending it's Capital FM without the adverts.
>
> On 12 September 2018 at 15:55, Tim Allen <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Yes. C4 has been deteriorating for a few years, and not just the Today
>> programme. Too much trivia - I suppose it's been told it has to compete.
>>
>> On 12 Sep 2018, at 11:35, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>>> If any channel
>>> deserves the title, it would be Radio 4.
>>
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