The men who play the new styles in jazz frequently tell me that they don’t like to call their music that—they see nothing desirable in having their art identified with the gin mills, criminal activities, hustling, and ruthless entrepreneurship and …
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Janis Joplin
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Mark me words, Janis Joplin is fated to be the next American pop superstar.
Rock and Jazz
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
Talk to almost any parent with “teen aged” children and you can hear the same litany endlessly chanted: rock is tasteless (American society being so notable for its good taste!), rock is loud, the only thing that counts is the …
No Rock-Jazz Merger Seen, but Close
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
In effect, rock has become the white man’s jazz. Bob Dylan, had he been born black, would surely have found a place somewhere in the jazz revolution; and a white Archie Shepp (the mind boggles!) would feel quite at home …