Moldy figs
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moldy-figs-185-5907683
title:
Moldy figs
text:
Moldy figs are purist advocates of early jazz, originally those such as Rudi Blesh, Alan Lomax, and James Jones, who argued that jazz took a wrong turn in the early 1920s with developments such as the introduction of printed scores. Blesh, for example, dismissed the work of Duke Ellington as "tea dansant music" with no jazz content whatever. The term was later used by the beboppers with reference to those who preferred older jazz to bebop. During the post-World War II era there was something of
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description:
Pejorative term for jazz purists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldy_figs
date created:
2007-08-04T18:47:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T17:03:15Z
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