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To: RON BL who wrote (132145)	3/16/2001 11:03:35 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Of all modern music Jazz is best. As you say, it is wonderfully rich. It is also expressive, epitomizes individualism, and often employs long, complex phrases and huge forms. I think Jazz is the closest modern musical equivalent to the classics. McCoy Tyner is one of my all time favorites. In fact I experienced quite a long Tyner phase during my college years and am still known to employ Tynerisms depending upon what I play. In college I would sometimes visit the nearby music school to play with the students there and finding virtually all the pianists (including me) at some point lapsing into that characteristic percussive Tyner style, with those big fat opened intervals in the left hand. Lord, I love that stuff. Unfortunately there is a lot of junk that passes for Jazz today. I think the real music is just too big and complex for modern sensibilities. So the minimalist demon is upon us here too. Fortunately, it appears the Europeans have appropriated the real music for themselves and are experimenting with it, I think, with much more passion than we Americans.