Are Heavy Metal & Jazz the same thing?

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Posted in music on August 8, 2005

"So are heavy metal and jazz basically the same thing? Sonny Sharrock always thought so, apparently. Black Sabbath seemed to suggest so, when they did "Supernaut." Miles Davis and James "Blood" Ulmer and Jean-Paul Bourelly and Tony Williams Lifetime and the Headhunters and Power Tools certainly cast votes in that direction. And Richard Meltzer compared Blue Cheer to Ornette Coleman, and Public Enemy figured out how to cohabitate Slayer with John Coltrane, and MX-80 Sound named a track "Felonious Funk," and the MC5 were just in town with the Sun Ra Arkestra last month. And lately, at the Times, Ben Ratliff seems to be covering both beats. So why not join the club?"

posted at 10:36 AM on August 8, 2005 in music | Comments (1)