Daniel Estulin's musical humiliation over jazz remarks
Daniel Estulin called jazz 'monkey music', sparking an analysis of his musical ignorance. The failed Hendrix-Davis collaboration shows that the…
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Daniel Estulin's musical humiliation: when jazz is not "monkey music"
When a conspiracy theorist like Daniel Estulin calls jazz "monkey music", it says more about him than about the genre. But the controversy has resurfaced after his analysis — or rather his lack of one — of the failed collaboration between Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix came to light. The question is not whether Estulin is right, but whether he has the slightest grounding to hold an opinion at all.
The Hendrix-Davis affair: a clash of concepts
As the analysis has laid out, the collaboration between Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix did not fail because Hendrix lacked the skill — as Estulin has hinted — but because the two musicians operated on different frequencies. Miles, fresh off "Bitches Brew", was looking for a guitarist able to execute with surgical precision the orchestral complexities that blended Stockhausen with funk. Hendrix was pure visceral improvisation, an emotional torrent that did not fit into Davis's millimetre-perfect puzzle. That is why Miles ended up choosing John McLaughlin, a guitarist who could hit the right note in exactly the right place. That Estulin reduces this conceptual difference to "bad music" or "lack of talent" reveals knowledge more suited to a daytime TV documentary than to an expert.
The book that never was: another conspiracy in the making
The debate has gone further: a template has been presented for a book that aims to prove that Hendrix's death was a murder orchestrated by his manager Mike Jeffery, with the CIA in the background, to prevent a Black musical fusion. The proposal, with titles like "The Silent Hawk" or "Funk, Fire and Treason", has been met with scepticism. Critics point out that the approach smells more like a conspiracist self-help manual — ordered chapters, implicit sarracena and the inevitable twist of "the truth the industry hides" — than rigorous research. It has even been suggested that the template appears to be AI-generated, which does not help its credibility.
With all this, the question left hanging is: will Estulin keep selling musical snake oil, or will someone finally make him listen to "Bitches Brew"?
When a conspiracy theorist like Daniel Estulin calls jazz "monkey music", it says more about him than about the genre. But the controversy has resurfaced after his analysis — or rather his lack of one — of the failed collaboration between Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix came to light. The question is not whether Estulin is right, but whether he has the slightest grounding to hold an opinion at all.
The Hendrix-Davis affair: a clash of concepts
As the analysis has laid out, the collaboration between Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix did not fail because Hendrix lacked the skill — as Estulin has hinted — but because the two musicians operated on different frequencies. Miles, fresh off "Bitches Brew", was looking for a guitarist able to execute with surgical precision the orchestral complexities that blended Stockhausen with funk. Hendrix was pure visceral improvisation, an emotional torrent that did not fit into Davis's millimetre-perfect puzzle. That is why Miles ended up choosing John McLaughlin, a guitarist who could hit the right note in exactly the right place. That Estulin reduces this conceptual difference to "bad music" or "lack of talent" reveals knowledge more suited to a daytime TV documentary than to an expert.
The book that never was: another conspiracy in the making
The debate has gone further: a template has been presented for a book that aims to prove that Hendrix's death was a murder orchestrated by his manager Mike Jeffery, with the CIA in the background, to prevent a Black musical fusion. The proposal, with titles like "The Silent Hawk" or "Funk, Fire and Treason", has been met with scepticism. Critics point out that the approach smells more like a conspiracist self-help manual — ordered chapters, implicit sarracena and the inevitable twist of "the truth the industry hides" — than rigorous research. It has even been suggested that the template appears to be AI-generated, which does not help its credibility.
With all this, the question left hanging is: will Estulin keep selling musical snake oil, or will someone finally make him listen to "Bitches Brew"?
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