Jazzed Classics
Sir.—l think it is time to put on record <1 do not mean a gramophone disci the extreme distaste evoked in come of us by the above perversion. Musically speaking, it is not the classics that ere jazzed—anyone trying to ■'rock." “roll.” or “twist" Bach would deservedly end up in a madhouse: and such gems of adaptation as Percy Grainger s must be accepted No; it is the poo- old nineteenth century romantics — eg., “Choppin”—who are the victims of this maltreatment. The first object of the t-avesty seems to be to alter t*ie tempo of the original work—sufficient alone to ruin it; the second, to provide a saxophonist or what-have-you with his “finest hour” by giving him free play with a totally irrelevant obbligato. To invert a well-known dictum, “This, sir, is worse than a blunder; it is a crime.”— Yours, etc., I.S.T. August 19. 1953.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 9
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