Wind Instrument Tuesday, March 08, 2005

A friend asks what the point of the quote below. As I saw it, Shaw was making a snotty point and a valid one at the same time. Snottywise, he was suggesting that he had a standard for quality and authenticity that nobody else could approach: i.e., He had such a burning talent that he was beyond categories, and when it came to sniffing out suspect art, he had a Jamie Farr special between his brows. Yadda yadda; we're all guilty of that to some extent.

But, like all criticism that stings, part of what he says is true. At least to my aesthetics, Bird is a tedious movie that goes overboard with the elegizing and downplays the sheer fun and wildness of bebop. There's more truth in Lalo Schifrin's Dirty Harry scores than in all of Bird: They're gritty, driven and urgent in a way that the biopic isn't. Somebody commented that Ken Burns's Baseball proved baseball was irrelevant: If the subject had any heat at all, there's no way all of those nice big foundations and corporations would've backed a documentary on it. I think Shaw makes a similar point about Bird: If they make an earnest biopic about you, you're lost, baby.

I won't comment on his overall take on jazz, in deference to a friend who doesn't talk to me anymore. But it's a fun take on the issue. RIP, you snarky bastid.

@ 9:11:00 PM,

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