ThesisOfRock (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Dizzy and the BIrd...what an incredible pair of muscians.

Achilles1223 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ur the biggest fool ive ever met. U are obviously no music producer. Your accually saying that music belongs to the first person that ever sang. And yes I can tell you that the biggest jazz musician did too have music lessons. Please dont be fake out here I can see right through you, if you wanna know something about jazz try and play it. Ow yes what colour are the bassist and drummer here?

willy1986tralara (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

fuckin right

179077 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

exrahustle-Music producers normally have to have a creative and open mind which reading your comments appears would suggest you are the complete opposite.Your posturing on the ownership of music is absurd-its like saying all Irish people whos ancesters suffured in the potato famine have the right to to talk about the struggle to survive starvation -perhaps your true vocation is in the copy right business.

mightyafrowhitey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm with you on that. My mom pretty much raised me on motown (even saw the jackson 5 when michael was just 8). And always loved Louis Armstrong. My dad was into Otis Redding and James brown so I got a lot of black influences in music growing up, as well as OLD country music, like Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. I've never understood predudice about anything (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion). I guess it all comes down to fear, insecurity, and ignorance.

crazy650c (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It may interest those here following the last few comments that Nimrod....the first world ruler, was black. He built the tower of Babel. He ruled the world for a while. As to music.....bless my white heiny....I love R&B, Motown and the Blues.....even the dreaded disco....Tavares was a favorite of mine.

crazy650c (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@mightyafrowhitey...When you get down to it...within cultures...are sub-cultures...and what you get is prejudice within them...I'm Italian...I once had a (white) guy call me a "spaghetti bender"...which to an Italian was an insult. Funny thing is I'm only one eighth Italian. Within the black community....darker blacks vs. lighter blacks. Within Korean....I can't even tell the difference but they can...and they fight over it. We need to teach the children character and that by demonstration.

TheGoldrock1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The acceptance is a good thing. The excellence and genius of the music showed that it was evolutionary and revolutionary. Music that America had tried to proclaim as primitive at one point was found to be advanced. When you say white, you are referring to the old paradigm. White is obsolete. I only use it as a dying metaphor. Let us say American or better still Human. Bird, Duke Trane Miles and Monk were sound scientist.

mightyafrowhitey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@TheGoldrock1 I misunderstood your point earlier. I assumed you were somehow saying that because jazz has now become accepted into american mainstream culture, that was somehow a bad thing. but still, nobody today in their right minds would consider jazz to be WHITE music. maybe that's your perception on how people view it, but I think your wrong. Jazz is above all American music, even though there have been great formeign musicians like Django Reinhard.

mightyafrowhitey (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

simply different. but it also borrowed a lot of its harmonic sophistication from european classical music. for anyone to deny that fact would be every bit as absurd. jazz borrowed from pop music, the blues, classical, etc, classical music and pop music subsequetly borrowd from jazz, ect. this is the nature of music, and indeed art in general. it's forever changing and growing. now I've run out of things to say. lol