Critics (II) In my last column [FE #21, January 1-15, 1967] I enumerated some of the more outstanding malfeasances on the part of the leading representatives of the jazz critics’ Establishment. In what follows I intend to go beyond …
FE Author: Frank Kofsky
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Why the critics? That is a question I get asked fairly frequently, by friends and correspondents who want to know why I expend so much energy on this particular aspect of the jazz Establishment.
Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
Editor’s note: Frank Kofsky’s byline was inadvertently left off his piece, “End of Jazz Clubs?” in the last issue. Joseph Jarman, whose picture ran with the article, is a young altoist from Chicago. It always comes as a distinct pleasure …
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
When Cecil Taylor spoke at a panel discussion at the University of Pittsburgh prior to his concert there, it apparently came as a shock to his collegiate audience that he and his fellow musicians no longer wish to undergo the …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
A few weeks ago the New Yorker’s man in jazz, Whitney Balliett, went out to the Coast to catch the Monterey Festival. While he was there he spoke with some of the “workers’ aristocracy” of jazz, the white musicians who …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
The men who play the new styles in jazz frequently tell me that they don’t like to call their music that—they see nothing desirable in having their art identified with the gin mills, criminal activities, hustling, and ruthless entrepreneurship and …
Janis Joplin
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Mark me words, Janis Joplin is fated to be the next American pop superstar.
Rock and Jazz
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
Talk to almost any parent with “teen aged” children and you can hear the same litany endlessly chanted: rock is tasteless (American society being so notable for its good taste!), rock is loud, the only thing that counts is the …
No Rock-Jazz Merger Seen, but Close
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
In effect, rock has become the white man’s jazz. Bob Dylan, had he been born black, would surely have found a place somewhere in the jazz revolution; and a white Archie Shepp (the mind boggles!) would feel quite at home …