Q,

Thanks for your posts. All interesting. And I utterly agree that Elijah Wolds comments are insulting to all Jazz musicians - including Duke Ellington whose jungle Jams, though originally designed for entertainment, are now revered as art, and Miles Davis, a very politicized and self respecting black man who was all about art music, yet played bebop with the best of them.

Jazz is free - has no master - is not owned by anyone.

It is defined by those who play it not by those who wish to politicize it from the outside.

Some have beautifully politicized it from the inside, but none of that has any bearing on the point of view its commentators.

Jazz ritually defies its commentators.