The difference between Braxton and Crouch, of course, is who they turn to
when they turn away from rap: the radical individuals of African-American
culture, or those who uphold other aspects of the African-American musical
continuum. One of the things this author doesn't seem to get is that perhaps
Braxton, Crouch and Bill Cosby have a point. In any case, thanks for the
link. Should make for interesting reading....Lazaro

-----Original Message-----
From: Franz Fuchs [mailto:f.fuchs@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 7:55 PM
To: Anthony_BRAXTON@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Braxton] Anthony Braxton - Andrew Cyrille Vol. 1 & Vol. 2


...in the German daily "tageszeitung" (taz):

http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/07/27/a0204.nf/text

The author is the paper's chief jazz critic, Christian Broecking, who
published a book called "The Marsalis Factor" ("Der Marsalis Faktor" ).
This last information is not unimportant as Broecking has been regularly
covering Wynton Marsalis' influence on American jazz in the "taz" and
the above piece resumes some of related topics.

The interesting thing is that Broecking doesn't mention the music of
AB-AC Vol. 1 & 2 (not even with one word!) but focuses solely on the
liner notes, which consist of a Ted Panken essay and interviews with
Braxton and Cyrille.

Broecking's main argument is that the liberal Braxton approximates the
jazz conservatives with some of his (controversial?) statements:

"When Braxton complains that the New Times writes about small criminal
["kleinkriminelle"] rappers who make a lot of money by saying
"motherfucker" in different registers but not about Cecil Taylor and
Bill Dixon, then he can join hands with the much-chided Stanley Crouch.
Crouch warned recently in his capacity as political commentator of the
New York Daily News that ignorance of the African-American tradition is
in particular a speciality of contemporary rappers. Black thinking after
slavery, says Crouch, revolves around instruction, education and serious
sel-development. Negroes, who, with a microphone in their hands, launch
sexist hatespeech, would be doing something rather un-Black."

Regards
Franz Fuchs




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