Stirling Newberry ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>You see, Jazz is contemporary music.  Even taking the most narrow of
>legalistic of tortured definitions which Deryk takes, the various jazz
>bands of the 1920's and 1930's have to qualify as being "contemporary music
>ensembles".  Last I checked Jelly Roll Morton was not a contemporary of
>Haydn.

Pick twenty reasonably musically knowledgeable people at random and ask
them what they would expect to hear at a concert of 'contemporary music'.

>Deryk implies that anyone who has a strong criticism for the status quo
>is, ipso facto, not objective.  Under this argument Watergate was merely a
>liberal conspiracy to bring down Nixon, because the charges they published
>against him were quite strong.

This is ludicrous. Where did I imply this?

Deryk Barker
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