...by using you and l_d JCM was setting up the post to be this reductionist jazz thing, where it's just this general american pop thing marketed for its negritude. It was awkward for me.
>I've just rarely indulged them here because (as you have >rightly pointed out) this is not really the place to discuss >jazz and on a deep, realistic (as opposed to mythological) >level.
I actually hope folk challenge the shit I be posting, to cut that shit down to size. That's actually the meat of my 15 comment. Like I'd love for him to be dropping jazz jewels, but I swear it never happens. It's wild that he can induct hall and oates, but can he hold his own on Blakey? I've never even heard him mention jazz drummers. And when you hear him play it makes a lot of sense. But here in the Lesson the whole nuance of that is missed for all his other awesome traits. Not a knock (even if I may wish more) just kinda how it is.