JAZZ IN NEW ZEALAND
Sir,-"Flamingo" is right when he says that the golden age of music is almost over and that a new age is dawning "devoid of the cultural influences we have known." I know that I am one of the new age. As a child I had no musical education, Music meant the radio, 1YD, or as often as not 1ZB. Even though a child I managed to sort the chaff from the oats with the minimum of snorting, and grew up with Armstrong, Freeman, Spanier and Bechet. To me the twelve-bar blues was instinctive; the man was the music; jazz was my norm; "classical" music was square and rather strange, strange and sometimes rather beautiful. I taught myself the double bass and had a wonderful time supplementing a meagre bursary by playing the music I liked, the music that came naturally. This is still my music; I take it seriously, and know it always will be. It is Negro music. You can date the new age from the Emancipation and know that the birthplace of anarchy was New Orleans.
FIDICEN
(Birkenhead).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 5
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184JAZZ IN NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 5
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