After having gone through reading the New Yorkers satire article we all read by now,I just got done reading Justin Moyers piece on the Washington Post where,among other atrocities,the writer states that Improvisation by the likes of serviceable,forgettable,uncontroversial players such as WES MONTGOMERY is perfect for browsing at Barnes and Noble,or piping into elevators.I am speechless.My first reaction is to hope that this individual (who certainly is a privileged son of a rich family, given the fact that he says he was a student at Wesleyan or some other strongholds of privilege in the US),gets kidnapped and sent to some place where he can finally earn a honest living by working as a miner. I am too outraged to add anything else,although I have many thoughts running through my mind now...Including this: its starting to feel like a pattern of late...have the media launched their final solution meant to definitely kill any mention and memory of the Music of the Masters?? Is this a deliberate plan meant to erase a form of Art that could awaken the minds and hearts to the reality of social and cultural relations in the Country,and Art with the power to make people think?? Are the US media so bothered at the fact that the rest of the world recognizes Charlie Parker,Sonny Rollins and Wes Montgomery as true Geniuses of modern music ? And since there is so much disinformation and deliberately created confusion in the way this music is broadcast to the rest of the world,do the media fear that the whole world might get hip to the real story behind this music? All these are ,sadly,rhetoric questions.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:40:28 +0000
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