THE BATTLE FOR JAZZ

“In this month’s Jazzwise magazine, saxophonist David Murray, the most recorded artist in the history of jazz, issues a declaration of war against Wynton Marsalis. Murray accuses him of stifling the creativity of a music which is inherently about change and improvisation, and of using his power to exclude those who do not adhere to his conservative agenda. ‘This is the most non-creative time in the whole history of jazz. They’ve stopped the clock and gone back again, to the 1960s and late 1950s, to define jazz. These guys are not doing jazz a service’.” – The Independent (UK)