Frank Kogan

I'm reaching a little bit here -- not least bcz (i) i've barely given t.swift a listen and (ii) ditto AnCo -- but it strikes me that there's more going on than just a recalcitrant old guard failing to give uyp to the New Thing within a coherent culture; this gulf is beginning to remind me of the near-absolute non-communication between the plateauing midbrow jazz of the late 50s and the rock that rockwrite was seeking and celebrating from the early 60s

in lots of ways there were lots of potential routes from one sensibility to another -- and interestingly many of the key voices actually stood more between the two worlds than is always easily recalled (bangs and meltzer and leroi jones) -- but it felt like a stubborn inability to cede worth, on the part of the jazzniks mostly (older, and with an achieved aesthetic they didn't want to let go of); the "new thing" (free jazz or "fire music" as people today seem to prefer to call it) was a lot more a response to rock than it generally let on, or at the very least an expansion into the same kind of territory...

obviously there are differences also: i suppose i'm kiting the idea that the gulf WON"T be bridged, as it wasn't (and isn't) between the midbrow jazz sensibility and the dylan-jagger-iggy sensibility... ?