Jazz and the Soviet Union
Sir,—M. Creel’s attempt to define jazz must be his most hilarious clanger of the year. How could jazz be the commercial property of wealthy corporate interests in the United States? The big recording companies know that jazz artists come well down the list in record sales. Pop artists or even super star conductors are more likely to be their choice. If M. Creel knew something of the evolution of jazz, and had listened to a wide variety of jazz performers, he would know that they would have a sharp reaction to his suggestion that their music reflected “the cultural and ideological values of the ruling oligarchic plutocracy” in the United States. He has shown ignorance of the meaning and spirit of jazz. — Yours, etc., EDWARD WILSON. April 11, 1984.
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