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- In a previous article, skovitz@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Sonia Kovitz) says:
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- >You know one of the strangest things about _Transmutation_ (don't laugh or
- >puke) - you can DANCE to it. Truly, I could not just SIT and listen to it.
- It
- >made you get up and DO it. Now how much jazz can you say that about?
- >(I hope I haven't made a horrible Volks Paw)
-
- If you would hang the label of "jazz" on Praxis, I'm afraid you have.
- Using the unambigious, clinical, politically-correct safe-sex definition
- of "fusion" as popularized by a Mr. Beer so long ago, you could probably
- get away with labelling them as a psychedelic funk-metal fusion, even
- though there seems to be a lot of improvising going on. I think it was
- decided that improvising does not jazz make, so in the case of Praxis,
- we'll call improvisation a moot point. I think there are better ways to
- describe Praxis, anyway. It's damn good tuneage though, ain't it Sonia?
-
- Re: "What is 'alternative'": Heh... one choice is *NO* choice. ;)
- We can turn this catagorization into a safe-sex definition, too (as has
- been shown). What I find hilarious are the arguments on the Usenet
- newsgroup 'alt.music.progressive' that the Cure, et al, should be
- discussed in that newsgroup (which is actually devoted to the
- discussion of bands such as Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, the
- whole Canterbury scene, etc. -- in other words, "progressive rock").
- Do they have a right to be mad when others laugh at them for trying to
- adopt an existing label to describe something completely different?
- Don't ask me... I shot the piano player.
-
- Jeff ("n.n.")
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