tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057000800479718590.post-79143126593139448742006-12-25T16:32:00.000-05:002006-12-25T16:58:45.067-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_v0ufQ_8AudA/RZBIqQEkA3I/AAAAAAAAABc/RISIm3FxEFA/s1600-h/images.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_v0ufQ_8AudA/RZBIqQEkA3I/AAAAAAAAABc/RISIm3FxEFA/s400/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012586275969172338" border="0" /></a><br /><br />So the <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/sports/football/25rhoden.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&amp;OP=26f1c4dfQ2F4Q51yB4FLGmmF4Q24eeq4vQ244Q24Q254LfmGFL4PmmFB2hh4Q24Q25Gjm_yrdjFgh">New York Times's</a> unfailingly mediocre sports section thinks it worth valuable column inches to interview Wynton Marsalis about the Saints' chances in the playoffs. It's high time I opened up a 20 ounce bottle of Haterade and poured it all over this dude.<br />It's bad enough that Ken Burns crowned him the Official Authority On All Things Related to Jazz. Despite his undeniable talent the guy's taste is totally boring and conservative, with no room for free-Jazz , fusion or anything else that happened to the genre after the mid-sixties. He, Burns and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra have helped to promote an image of jazz as "America's Classical Music" a neutered, Starbucks-friendly bastardization that is severely damaging toward any further evolution of the genre.<br />After Katrina, Marsalis was all of a sudden the media's go-to spokesman for the Big Easy's cultural heritage even though he hasn't lived there since he was 17. I'm not saying he doesn't have love for his home own, I'm just saying, it might be more appropriate to interview a musician who actually lived in the city and was displaced by the Hurricane. I'm sure Trick Daddy would have been available.<br />Now we're supposed to care when he says totally inane things about football! Wynton Marsalis clearly knows everything. We should get that motherfucker to figure a way out of Iraq. It would probably have somehting to do with having soul and believing in something.<br />If you ask me, anyone who doesn't realize that In a Silent Way and On the Corner rank just as high as Miles' post-Bop albums shouldn't be asked for his opinion on anything.JKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11614506888405512907noreply@blogger.com2