[dmz]

Somehow I have a hard time considering Vince Guaraldi’s score for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as “Black American Music.”

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LOL. I have a hard time calling it jazz.

Listen to some Monk with Coltrane at the 5 spot in NYC in the mid to late 50s, and then listen to Guaraldi. Doesn’t sound like they are playing the same ‘kind’ of music, does it?

White players playing jazz often make jazz pretty. You’ll never hear the spit gurgling in a white guy’s trumpet playing like you do when you listen to, say, Lee Morgan.

Oh God, please don’t let this conversation move into a discussion about the racial beginnings of blues music. I might get banned.

[dfwgator]

Now Kenny G, THAT’S not Jazz.

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You’ll never hear the spit gurgling in a white guy’s trumpet playing like you do when you listen to, say, Lee Morgan.

But then I never heard a black piano player grunt while playing, like Keith Jarrett.