The Crouchites

The Crouchites: Thinly Veiled

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 2, 2004

Masters of irony or useful idiots? Perhaps neither, most likely both. The Crouchites, featured in the latest edition of Blackzz Times, could pass as the poster boys...other than The Bad Plus...for the type of jazz so adamantly condemned by Stanley Crouch. Yet, Crouch himself is the sole special guest of this production! Crouch's perfunctory performance in “Bobbing for Crackers Ain't Racist Just Differently Prejudiced, illustrates all that's wrong with this production. Straggled time, unsympathetic musical ideas, stiff chordal harmonies, repetitious ...