Saturday, January 04, 2003
Courtesy of the Arts & Letter Daily:
"This was the language of criticism of modern painting, modern poetry, modern music. Of course! How glibly I had talked of modern jazz, without realizing the force of the adjective: this was modern jazz, and Parker was a modern jazz player just as Picasso was a modern painter and [Ezra] Pound a modern poet. . . . I went back to my books: 'After Parker, you had to be something of a musician to follow the best jazz of the day.' Of course! After Picasso! After Pound! There could hardly have been a conciser summary of what I don’t believe about art." philip larkin and all that jazz
¶ 1/04/2003 01:57:00 PM
