RE:
"Where lucidity reigns, a scale of values becomes unnecessary" (in Post # 449):
I thought I remembered where I found the above quotation, checked and it was there. I found it in a book entitled "Jazz - Its Evolution and Essence" by Andre Hodeir. The translation of the text appears to date from 1956, as published by The Grove Press, but I have it in a 1961 paperback published by Black Cat. I probably bought 45 years ago , so the paper is beginning to go yellow and one or two pages are working their way loose. DOWNBEAT said it was "The best analytical book on jazz ever written", which sums it up well. That probably explains why
"Where lucidity reigns, a scale of values becomes unnecessary" appears on the title page for the INTRODUCTION section.
So I've now done a bit of scouting on-line. It looks like you can upload the book here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/jazzitsevolution000731mbp/jazzitsevolution000731mbp_djvu.txtOr you can read it here from the original Grove edition:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59493293/Andre-Hodeir-Jazz-its-evolution-and-essenceThe quotation is attributed to Albert Camus but I have no idea which of his works it comes from. Everywhere I look, it comes back to Hodeir's book, not the original source. If anyone can locate the original Camus source, that would be of interest to me.
Some of the Hodeir book will be a touch difficult to read for those less interested in jazz but some of his comments have a link to the wider arts in general, including popular music . For example, the chapter "Notes on the Problem of Creation", whilst about jazz and using terms not politically correct these days, discusses drawing on the past and the work of one's forebears and developing one's own style, with reference to both art and jazz. Some of the commentary applies to other forms of music, too.
