{"id":300,"date":"2005-12-14T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=300"},"modified":"2005-12-14T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:29:43","slug":"that_jake_hanna_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/12\/that_jake_hanna_story\/","title":{"rendered":"That Jake Hanna Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Tracy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story<\/a> about Jake Hanna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reflexive quip the night he learned of John Lennon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder inspired an assortment of responses from readers of the Jazz West Coast listserve. Here is one exchange, courtesy of the JWC list:
\nFrom: Jeff Jansen
\nSubject: John Lennon Anecdote<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is this what jazz people consider humor: celebrating the murder of one
\nmusician and wishing for the murders of three more? Oh, yeah I forgot the
\njazz credo: if it’s not jazz, it’s not music; and if you don’t play jazz
\nyou’re not really a musician. I guess we can now add: if you’re any other
\nkind of musician, you deserve to die soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jake Hanna is a bastard for making the joke, and Jack Tracy is a bastard for
\nloving Jake for saying it, but neither deserves to die before his time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeff Jansen | Portland, Oregon | USA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From: joseph lang
\nSubject: RE: John Lennon Anecdote<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeff,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do not know your age, but I have seen several comments about the Jake
\nHanna anecdote off-list that lead me to conclude that the reaction to Jake’s
\ncomments might to be generational. I do not believe that Jake, or anyone,
\nwelcomed Lennon’s death in any real sense. He was just smugly reacting to
\nthe effect that the advent of the Beatles had on musical tastes, and the
\nconcomitant effect that it had on the music business, especially for jazz
\nplayers. The Beatles, and rock music in general, certainly did not help
\njazz musicians, except for those who benefitted from studio gigs on rock
\nrecordings. I can understand how one could be offended by reading Jake’s
\ncomment in the abstract, but, given the kind of humor that is often a part
\nof the jazz culture, Jake’s comment does not seem any more insensitive than
\na lot of other comments by jazzmen that have been passed along through the
\nyears. To those who put Lennon on a pedistal as some kind of super cultural
\nicon, a judgement that I do not share, I guess that they could never
\nunderstand the whimsy of Jake’s comment. I personally considered many of
\nLennon’s positions, particularly his rather public acknowledgement of his
\ninvolvement in the drug culture, to be as offensive to me as Jake’s comment
\nis to you. I guess that it is all a matter of perspective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joe Lang<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jack Tracy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story about Jake Hanna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reflexive quip the night he learned of John Lennon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder inspired an assortment of responses from readers of the Jazz West Coast listserve. Here is one exchange, courtesy of the JWC list: From: Jeff Jansen Subject: John Lennon Anecdote Is this what jazz people consider humor: celebrating the murder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}