re: #142 Charles Johnson

Oh, look—Spencer is now blaming John Coltrane & Miles Davis for ruining jazz. He even manages to work in a totally nonsensical jab at Islam in the next to the last sentence. What a pretentious, hateful idiot (but we already knew that):

How Miles Davis and John Coltrane Ruined Jazz
Time to pinpoint who is really responsible for preparing American culture for the likes of Kenny G and the horrors of muzak.

[…] It is Miles Davis who brought us the likes of Kenny G, David Sanborn, David Benoit and other handsomely remunerated purveyors of musical pap; it is John Coltrane to whom we owe self-important dweebs wearing dirty turtlenecks and black horn-rims, grating the ears on saxophones and trumpets while one is trying to get a beer in a college town bar – Miles Davis aptly termed them “no-playing m—–f—–s.” Jazz was so much healthier and more interesting when these two disparate strands of the music were still germinating within a larger unity, when Coltrane was the star member of Davis’s quintet, and the two titans had not yet torn it all apart. (And don’t get me started on Wynton Marsalis. If he’s jazz, Lindsey Lohan is Elizabeth Taylor.)

And so now jazz is not dead, and Islam is a religion of peace. For the former, we have Miles Davis and John Coltrane to thank.

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