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The Blue Noise Band: Multi-Purpose

by Mark Corroto
August 1, 2000

The music, call it jazz, The Blue Noise Band plays is like a joy ride in a stolen car, all good fun, that is till someone gets hurt. Jazz today is supposed to be about traditional family values like the blues and swing. Boys, boys...why be so hurtful to Stanley Crouch and Albert Murray?

I’ll tell you why, because jazz was/is supposed to rattle our collective cages. Make you cogitate. Armstrong did it (Pops, not cycling hero Lance), Trane, Cecil, ...