I like ethiopian jazz. But if a white nerd told me he was "into ethiopian jazz" i would probably hit him on the head with a rock. I feel this way about many genres
I sometimes think about Japanese excellence. For example, Japanese whisky is much better than the original, but Japanese coffee is very bad. Similarly, Japanese jazz is superior to American jazz, but Japanese pop music is garbage. What causes these big differences?
After John passed, Alice Coltrane went through a serious health crisis, suffering from hallucinations and insomnia. One day she unexpectedly found a Lyon and Healey concert harp at her doorstep ordered as a surprise by John before he died that he never got to see.
Genuinely I do feel like a lot of the Brazilian/Japanese/Ethiopian jazz enthusiasm among white Americans lately stems from a fetishization of cultures seen as other and “exotic” and it’s apparent contrast from “typical” Black American jazz.
cillian murphy it appears ive grown quite fond of you though there are no sexual urges or desires you come to me as a long lost friend whom i once picked apples with in papas orchard
John Coltrane in the late 50s: “I really feel like I found my sound after taking some time to get clean and study with Monk. I’m ready to rejoin Miles’s sextet.”
Bill Evans subplot:
Whenever anyone talks about jazz musicians dying young from recklessness or addiction I think a lot about Bud Powell specifically. His love for his friend Thelonious Monk, and how he protected him from police raids in 1945, taking one of many beatings throughout his life for him.