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 Re: Lester Young on clarinet
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2014-05-10 00:01

The more philosophical you try to get about what constitutes a particular type of jazz or jazz itself, the more elusive the music becomes. New Orleans trumpeter Nicholas Payton believes the very concept of jazz is a creation of white-controlled media and white intellectuals (perhaps desperately looking for something to analyze and write about) . He believes, if I am not mistaken, that all music is really an ethnic, local, social creation that exists within a particular culture and serves that culture's particular needs. Music is essentially live performance and entertainment with necessary audience participation. He finds harmonic analysis of the various kinds of music called jazz misleading and considers it an an imposition of classical musical theory on a kind of music that is really a rhythmically-driven ritual between performers and audience. His web site goes into considerable detail on developing these points.

Most New Orleans musicians, no matter what kind of music they play, are acutely aware of their audience and the ritual entertainment function they are performing. George Lewis did perform in this sort of matrix, but I agree with you that so did many dozens of others clarinetists of the time who were seldom or never featured in the media, and many of them played just as well as or better within that idiom than Lewis did.
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