Word: hentoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hentoff called most jazz critics "amateurish" and "incompetent." "It's an easy cop-out for a jazzman to say a critic doesn't know what's he doing, because he's right...
...relaxation, said Hentoff, "I listen to chamber music at home...
...younger men in the field, there is no turning back as background for drinking," Hentoff said...
...increased formal training the young men have, Hentoff observed that "it is no longer possible to play by ear." He did not feel that a jazzman studying music would necessarily ruin him for jazz...
...most interesting aspects of the jazzman's self-consciousness, Hentoff stated, was that apparently "the bulk of jazz repertoire is not going to be variations and improvisations of Jerome Kern or George Gershwin, but rather an indigenous set of jazz compositions...