JAZZ IN NEW ZEALAND
Sir-I have read with interest the numerous listeners’ comments about musical taste as provoked by Mr. L. D. Austin. No longer should jazz enthusiasts be regarded by longhair critics as primitive freaks. Jazz ig music of intellectual value which brings great pleasure to those lucky enough to possess the potential for understanding and appreciating Western modes with Negro rhythms. Music appreciation is a faculty possessed by many in some classes, but few in all classes. As Highland pipe bands or Beethoven sonatas inspire those equipped with suitable mental receiving devices, so true imaginative jazz improvisation or orchestration creates in a jazz lover thé satisfaction which Mr. Austin and his kind are so unlucky not to possess, Idiom is a force to be reckoned with, and the said correspondents are, I feel, musically incomplete if they fail to get the message in other fields besides the ones in, which they so narrowly specialise. Shouldn’t we, who love an ert-form other than ‘theirs, be tolerated?
S. D.
BUCHANAN
(Ranfurly).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 5
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171JAZZ IN NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 5
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