“...there was a belief that popular music, almost by definition (and usually with an unexplained exception for the 1960s) could not be artistically valid.”
I really like all the insightful detail you throw in all the time, Steve!
TIL about the 1942 recording ban. Just spent the last little while on YouTube listening to some 1944 Coleman Hawkins/Dizzy Gillespie sides that are allegedly among the earliest be-bop sides committed to vinyl, so thanks for that.
YIL I learned what TIL means. Townsend argues that even without the recording ban, the most likely scenario would have been the big bands containing Parker, Gillespie, et al would have continued to record what they did before, not giving us much of a clue to the development of be-bop. I haven't checked out these Hawkins/Gillespie recordings - will do so one of these days because how can they not be great?
“...there was a belief that popular music, almost by definition (and usually with an unexplained exception for the 1960s) could not be artistically valid.”
I really like all the insightful detail you throw in all the time, Steve!
TIL about the 1942 recording ban. Just spent the last little while on YouTube listening to some 1944 Coleman Hawkins/Dizzy Gillespie sides that are allegedly among the earliest be-bop sides committed to vinyl, so thanks for that.
YIL I learned what TIL means. Townsend argues that even without the recording ban, the most likely scenario would have been the big bands containing Parker, Gillespie, et al would have continued to record what they did before, not giving us much of a clue to the development of be-bop. I haven't checked out these Hawkins/Gillespie recordings - will do so one of these days because how can they not be great?