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Re: [ARSCLIST] A gripe Was: A Holiday vision
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From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 28/12/07, Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> > I would also include Jimi Hendrix as a "creator!" There are a VERY few
> > artists who picked up their instrument and started playing in a way
> > than no one had previously done...!
>
> However, the influence from Coltrane is very strong. It's a great pity
> Hendrix died so young, it would have been interesting to see how he
> developed.
>
> > I'd include Armstrong, Ellington,
> > possibly Goodman, Charlie Christian and/or Aaron "T-Bone" Walker,
> > probably Broonzy (but NOT RJ, who I feel is over-rated through having
> > been the main acoustic/country blues artist available in the UK just
> > as their blues fascination started...?!), Jimmie Rodgers, Hank
> > Williams I, Earl Hooker (Chicago bluesman who was playing that "funk"
> > rhythm in c.1959...!), Bob Dylan, the Beatles, James Brown,
> > Hendrix...and not much innovative in a larger use of that term from
> > there on...!
> >
> > I'm thinking of new musical developments that completely changed the
> > face of "popular music" when they appeared...like ragtime c.1900 or
>
> But wht does music have to be "popular" to be important? Have Hugo
> Wolf's songs ever been popular? Or Mompou? Or Mabel Mercer?
>
Okeh...when I used the term "popular," I was referring to the genre
of the music...NOT whether it was in any way "popular" in the primary
sense of that term...!
Steven C. Barr