Re: Kind of Blue had a negative influence.
by
timezoned
08/17/2009, 4:17 PM
Good grief.
To claim that Bill Evans and Miles Davis were only interested in "innovation" and not "beauty" is really one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard.
And Charlie Parker is known as one of the great innovators of all time in jazz, it's what he's known for. I personally find less beauty in his work than Miles or Evans, but I know that's just a matter of taste, both have plenty of it for those who like them.
And this: "Starting in the late 50's and 60's, the focus of jazz and other art forms became innovation"
Starting in the 1950s? So not with the impressionists in France? Or earlier?
Most really memorable artists are great innovators, and there are reasons for that, anyone just following tradition is usually not being very creative.
The Impressionists, by the way, were ridiculed back then (before the 1950s, that is) for being "too interested in only innovation".
Sounds like you just like Charlie Parker, which is great. I'm not a fan of Ornette Coleman either. That's a better way to say it though, IMO, than "all music became awful after this particular date". It's absurd, sorry.