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All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-1971
- Sales Rank: #1443170 in Books
- Published on: 1985-06-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.87" h x .79" w x 4.92" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
From Library Journal
Larkin originally wrote these record reviews for England's Daily Telegraph , and he gathered most of them in an earlier edition subtitled A Record Diary 1961-68 (1970). While his acerbic derision of modernism as exemplified by Pound, Picasso, and Charlie Parker might be enough to keep all but the most culturally conservative from reading beyond his introduction, readers who can see beyond his opinions will find the poet, novelist, and essayist Larkin. He structures a piece with gentility and flavor, using collections of reviews brief enough to be called notes to exemplify comments about ``the State of Jazz'' and to propound a nostalgic ideal. All What Jazz has as much to say about Larkin as it does about jazz recordings; it is as appropriate for literature collections as for music collections. William Brockman, Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Diary, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
The traditional vs. the modern in jazz
By R. M. Peterson
I will admit that I am somewhat partial to Philip Larkin, warts and all. He is one of the few poets of the 20th-Century whose work I can read for more than, say, ten minutes and be entertained and edified. I have also enjoyed his literary criticism, as well as a volume of his letters. So I decided to try out his music criticism - jazz, specifically. From 1961 to 1971 Larkin wrote a monthly column for the "Daily Telegraph" in which he reviewed jazz recordings. They are collected, with an after-the-fact introduction, in ALL WHAT JAZZ.
Alas, at this remove, reading the book is a little like panning for gold: one has to sift through a lot of dirt and dross. But at least you know in advance that there will be an acceptable percentage of gold. Larkin's acerbic wit and amiable curmudgeonry (admittedly, an oxymoron of sorts) are in full and frequent display. Together with his opinionated enthusiasm, they elevate the book over any other conceivable collection of jazz record reviews from 40 to 50 years ago.
Not surprisingly, jazz to Larkin is traditional jazz, from before 1945 and bebop. "I can recognize jazz because it makes me tap my foot, grunt affirmative exhortations, or even get up and caper round the room. If it doesn't do this, then however musically interesting or spiritually adventurous or racially praiseworthy it is, it isn't jazz." Along the same lines: "The jazz that conquered the world (and me) was the jazz of Armstrong, Ellington, Bix and the Chicagoans. What Parker, Monk, Miles and the Jazz Misanthropes are playing can be Afro-American music for all I care, but it isn't jazz."
At times Larkin realizes that he is a cultural fossil and that the jazz that won his allegiance was in a death spiral. Among the nuggets of the book are his sporadic attempts at analyzing and explaining its demise. A lot of it, he writes, had to do with changes in the relationship of the American Negro within American society. "The Negro is in a paradoxical position: he is looking for the jazz that isn't jazz. Either he will find it, or - and I say this in all seriousness - jazz will become an extinct form of music as the ballad is an extinct form of literature, because the society that produced it has gone."
Perhaps the most noteworthy passages of the book are when Larkin goes beyond jazz and discusses its transformation in the broader context of cultural modernism. He sees Parker as a practitioner of modernism in jazz, just as Pound and Picasso were in their respective fields (the three chosen for alliterative effect). "I dislike such things not because they are new, but because they are irresponsible exploitations of technique in contradiction of human life as we know it. This is my essential criticism of modernism, whether perpetrated by Parker, Pound or Picasso: it helps us neither to enjoy nor endure. It will divert us as long as we are prepared to be mystified or outraged, but maintains its hold only by being more mystifying and more outrageous: it has no lasting power."
Larkin is at his peak in creatively heaping scorn on some of the preeminent figures of what was then "modern" jazz: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and - especially - John Coltrane. "With John Coltrane metallic and passionless nullity gave way to exercises in gigantic absurdity, great boring excursions on not-especially-attractive themes during which all possible changes were rung, extended investigations of oriental tedium, long-winded and portentous demonstrations of religiosity. It was with Coltrane * * * that jazz started to be ugly on purpose."
I've highlighted Larkin's prejudices. If they are in line with yours, and if you are willing to wade through scads of reviews of now-forgotten records and artists from decades ago, you should find ALL WHAT JAZZ worthwhile. Otherwise, the book is probably of interest only to the Larkin compleatist - a category on whose door I seem to be knocking.
16 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Diary of a sourpuss
By A Customer
When a reviewer calls Coltrane's playing 'possessed continually by an almost Scandinavian unloveliness', and questions Thelonious Monk's sense of rhythm, you start to get a feel for what kind of jazz he'll go for. And you'd be right: nothing ever seems to please Larkin quite so much as old-school big band or dixieland, and he's not afraid to say so. Still, he's a good writer and all, so if you're looking for a collection of jazz reviews from the 60s written by a slightly stuffy guy who never really got over Woody Herman, this is the book for you.
10 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Tedium, Thy Name is Larkin
By Chuck Dennis
All What Jazz, indeed. While Philip Larkin was a poet of some note, I'm thinking it probably didn't pay real well. So he got a gig, doing a monthly jazz column for the Daily Telegraph. He used this gig to blather endlessly of the superiority of Dixieland and trad jazz, and the travesty and utter disgrace that is modern jazz, i.e., bebop, hard bop, and horror above horrors, the dreaded free jazz. Indeed, the book opens with a quote from Miles Davis, trashing Ornette Coleman's music. Nothing like hiding behind an icon, there, Phil. Miles, who was the Charles Barkley of his day, would regularly say outrageous things for effect and "press." In print, the words look harsh - the printed page does not capture Miles's raspy cackle following his "quote." But the printed page does capture quite well the clammy, pasty discomfort that Larkin feels for modern jazz. Yes, pip-pip, give me the old Dixieland bands that I loved as a lad in prep school! OK, fine. A nice remembrance piece, on occasion, is nice. A barbed attack on an artist or genre can also be thought-provoking. (I've been known to dabble in such things...) However, Larkin did it EVERY MONTH for 10 years. Talk about a one trick pony, in an era that spawned creative genius and obliterated musical boundaries, Old Frumpy Phil is pining for the syncopated rhythms of his past. He would allow for Duke and Basie, but he had little use for Bird or Monk, and if he wasn't outright trashing them, he was smugly doling out left-handed compliments. But don't get him started on Trane, or, God forbid, Ornette. Truly the only book that I have read in anger, and out of morbid curiosity. Bottom line: it wasn't worth it. Save your money, or better yet, go buy a Coltrane disk!
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