I mean I don't disagree with his take on music as a whole (specifically about how TTET is seen as not only the standard but the rule for western music, which is bad) but he also didn't live long enough to see how wildly freeform jazz became after 1957-ish and into the 60s. Artists like Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, etc. all made some pretty groundbreaking music. Not to mention Sun Ra making some of the weirdest most freeform microtonal jazz even back in the 40s.
Maybe I'm too stupid to understand his point and I don't necessarily disagree about popular jazz through the 40s being stupid but a lot of the best jazz ignores classical western conventions which is good IMO.
what about marxists that hate jazz?
I mean I don't disagree with his take on music as a whole (specifically about how TTET is seen as not only the standard but the rule for western music, which is bad) but he also didn't live long enough to see how wildly freeform jazz became after 1957-ish and into the 60s. Artists like Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, etc. all made some pretty groundbreaking music. Not to mention Sun Ra making some of the weirdest most freeform microtonal jazz even back in the 40s.
Maybe I'm too stupid to understand his point and I don't necessarily disagree about popular jazz through the 40s being stupid but a lot of the best jazz ignores classical western conventions which is good IMO.