英语六级听力练习：常速英语5.13(2)_大学英语听力

英语六级听力练习：常速英语5.13(2)

　　He wanted to document this music, he said. His whole philosophy is that jazz is an art form.

　　Treating artists as artists and swimming against the tide became hallmarks of Blue Note jazz, an approach that finally paid off in the 1940s, when jazz shifted, away from the dance music of the Big Band Era and toward a new form that came to be called Bebop.

　　According to Havers, Lion quickly realized that jazz was moving in a different direction, and the first of the new wave of artists that he recorded was Thelonious Monk, who he absolutely adored.

　　Thelonious Monk was famous for playing the wrong notes, said Ouellette. Many people thought it was just rubbish.

　　But while much of the music business didnt understand artists like Monk, Richard Havers says this was another example of Blue Note treating artists like artists.

　　Alfred Lion gave his artists the freedom to do what they wanted to do, he said. They felt they were artists. They were not money machines.

　　Blue Note was well respected and had some financial success, but by the 1960s, Ouellette says, things were not looking good for Blue Note or jazz.

　　Rock music, and the beginnings of funk were coming around, he said. People are running away in droves because of rock music.

　　In 1967, Alfred Lion sold Blue Note to another record company. They drove it into the ground. In a rush to make money quickly, they stopped paying for rehearsal time and otherwise alienated the labels biggest stars, most of whom left to go to other record companies. The label got a reprieve in 1981 and had another long run of artistic success, but by the early 2000s, according to the current head of Blue Note, producer Don Was.