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...BLACK avant-garde jazz of the 60s has been feared, despised and largely ignored by the American music industry. Avant-garde musicians have found live dates in this country sporadic and recording sessions even less frequent. Artista's release of these four records represents a major commitment to jazz's most daring creative artists that few American record companies have been willing to make. Perhaps 15 years since its creation the music is now "safe" enough to be officially recognized...
...Avant-garde jazz grew out of a reaction to the increasing slickness of jazz in its hard bop and cool phases in the late '50s. Musicians who had grown up with the bop revolution could rattle off chordal solos with such facility that there were no longer any challenges left. To restore the music's freshness, another revolution was necessary, but like most revolutions, it brought changes for which few were prepared. Musicians such as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman sought to move outside the boundaries of traditional musical structure, to ignore the rules of harmony and tonality. Such...
...Towering Inferno is a return to the sources of film's power. Avant garde directors have tried to make movies compete with other art forms and so lost touch with the elemental appeal of film. Cops and robbers and westerns have been transplanted to television...
...Offending the Audience. Asked whether the second item on his intriguing double-bill actually does "offend the audience," author Tom Wright '76 replied, "Yes, and it bores them too." See the avant garde epater les bourgeois, if you like, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Ex. It promises to be interesting theater...
...only a few thousand people--artists, wealthy collectors and critics--then the people who write about it, the high priests of culture, can have an enormous impact. What people are getting out of art is not enjoyment of art but the thrill of being where the intellectual and cultural avant-garde is. The whole scene has built upon itself, because it depends on change and even more on the deliberate strangeness of the art--only the truly enlightened can appreciate it. No philistine would ever buy an Ad Reinhardt painting...