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04/05/2010

Better Things

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

“I Learned the Hard Way”

Apr 5, 2010 1:38:48 PM

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Cracking the Mossy Stone Let’s just say it, people: the jazz internet has a contemporizing bias. Trawl the blogs, cop the tweets, and you might mistakenly conclude that most partisans of this music are anti-essentialists, allergic to strict guidelines, always up for something new. But that’s simply not the case, which is one reason for this month’s column in JazzTimes. For some time, I had been musing over an ascendant strain of “jazz traditionalism” that embraces the mid-century modern axis (Shorter, Hancock) but excludes some recent fissures (Lehman? Moran?). So what do I do, then: coin a new term of disparagement? Please, don’t let...

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