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Sounds more like they just didn't like Jazz!

• zabzonk 4y ago
  larkin was a famous and influential writer on the subject
  • freejazz 4y ago
    And Miles, Coltrane, and Coleman are the seeds of everything that happened in Jazz since post-bop
  • seanhunter 4y ago
    Phillip Larkin was a "trad jazz" devotee and his writing about music has not aged well at all. It probably would have completely faded into obscurity were it not for the fact that his poetry is so well-known.