The First Critical Discussion of Jazz

I am making efforts to learn alone about music history of several genres of music (Jazz, Classical -modern and not, Prog, Avantgarde etc...).

I see. Well thanks for clearing that out, Dick.

I was just intrigued by that article but i always watch out from the sources I look into (hence the word I ised in my original post - Supposedly).

By the way, have you heard of Piero Scaruffi? He too seems to be a self-appointed music historian. Althuogh the bio which he presents shows that he has been in this for long and has published a few books on the matter:

 

superprog wrote: how anyone can even dare to conceive of writing fusion out of jazz history is unfathomable............

There was great furore in the more liberal jazz press about the slanted view Burns,  that many people felt were at the behest of Wynton Marsalis, about this omission. In the TV documentary you get to Bitches Brew and then a jump to the Young Lions of the late 70's (which Marsalis was involved, and the restroation of so-called old tme jazz values: jazz is America's classical music, etc.  Burn's future of jazz was young trained musicians playing the old stuff - Stuart Nicholson's most recent book, Is Jazz Dead Or Moved To A New Address, delves deep into this territory.

BTW one remaining embarrassment for Wynton Marsalis  - if his brother playing jazz fusion behind Sting doesn't count - is his appearance playing jazz funk on a Stanley Clarke produced album Fuse One (originally released on vinyl by CTI and on CD with added tracks on Limelight).