Hate Mail - Daddy Defamation Whines

First I can honestly and proudly say I have never, once, had anything to do with any part of Mark Zuckerberg's money machine.  I have never had anything to do with anything that involves using "friend" as a verb.

It's ridiculous for Duncan Black, the sponsor of one of the pissier individual blog cliques, to be complaining about online "pissing matches" at this point in his online history.   Why does he think that the adults all eventually leave?   Clearly, he can dish it but he can't take it.

Update:  Who ever said what Guy Lombardo did was jazz?   When the greatest figure in the history of jazz, to date, praised Lombardo's music he noted that they played it straight.

"You can't find another band that can play a straight lead and make it sound that good.”

That is a quote from, you know, that musical ignoramus, Louis Armstrong, not the pride of Eschaton, their resident expert,  who always is wrong.  Or near enough.  Of course you have to understand what Armstrong meant when he said by "a straight lead".   I'm not going to explain.

Here's what Elijah Wald had to say about the issue.   Of course, since the likes of Simps, and Tunderboy and Skeptic Tank aren't interested in what one of the 20th centuries greatest figures in music heard, they won't care what a real scholar of the music thinks.   Sorry, reading is required.  I know you won't do that so I won't bother advising listening to the recordings mentioned.  I listened to a lot of them, as Wald noted, when he wanted his band to play hot Lombardo could get them to play hot.  But you wouldn't know that unless you listened.

There is a story that the manuscript of Bach's great  solo violin works was so little thought of in the next generation that they were narrowly rescued from ending up as butcher paper.   There's no way of knowing how future generations will think of music of the recent past.  Though I'm pretty sure that more people will know Lombardo's music, if for no other reason than that Louis Armstrong liked it, than will ever remember the oeuvre of one Steve Simels and his band.