Why aren't there any other music critics like Scaruffi (i.e. critics with taste)?

Why aren't there any other music critics like Scaruffi (i.e. critics with taste)?

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there's me

who's the braphog on the right?

most critics listen to all the music they review

>writes long paragraphs about albums talking about specific tracks without even listening to them
how does he do it bros?

He's a pedo

there's probably hundreds of other obscure critics with tryhard avant-krautnoise reviews on rym and wordpress, but they don't get memed as much nor have the reputation that scruffles has gained for doing conferences in politics and science

>Scaruffi (i.e. critics with taste)
Good taste is useless if you don't understand it (know music theory). Scruffy's a hack and so are you.

I've looked at thousands of RYM profiles, they are either a tastelet or a Scaruffi drone, there is simply no inbetween

The only modern reviewer with dignity and he’s not writing about music as often anymore. Sad really

he recently just added ratings for all his jazz lists

9/10
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963)
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (1964)
Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity (1964)
Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (1966)
Sun Ra: Atlantis (1967)
Anthony Braxton: For Alto (1969)
Don Cherry: Mu (1969)
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1969)
Anthony Braxton: Saxophone Improvisations (1972)

8.5/10
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (1960)
Max Roach: Freedom Now Suite (1960)
John Coltrane: Ascension (1965)
Sun Ra: The Magic City (1965)
Roscoe Mitchell: Sound (1966)
Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisers (1966)
Gary Burton: A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
Sam Rivers: Dimensions And Extensions (1967)
Michael Mantler: Jazz Composers' Orchestra (1968)
Paul Bley: Improvisie (1970)
Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)
Alice Coltrane: Ptah The El Daoud (1970)
Carla Bley: Escalator Over The Hill (1971)
Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds (1972)

8/10
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (1950)
Stan Kenton: City of Glass (1951)
Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa (1956)
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1956)
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (1956)
George Russell: Jazz Workshop (1956)
Sonny Rollins: Freedom Suite (1958)
Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz To Come (1959)
George Russell: New York New York (1959)
Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (1959)
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (1959)
John Coltrane: Giant Steps (1959)
Charles Mingus: Presents (1960)
Gunther Schuller [John Lewis]: Jazz Abstractions (1960)
Ornette Coleman: Ornette (1961)
John Coltrane: Impressions (1961)
Charles Mingus: Epitaph (1962)
Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti (1962)
Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy (1963)
Joe Harriott: Movement (1963)
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch (1964)
Marion Brown: Quartet (1965)
Don Cherry: Complete Communion (1965)
Sam Rivers: Contours (1965)
Cecil Taylor: Conquistador (1966)
Alex Schlippenbach: Globe Unity (1966)
Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight (1966)
Roscoe Mitchell: Old Quartet (1967)
Bill Dixon: Intents And Purposes (1967)
Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (1968)
Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm (1968)
Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969)
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (1969)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: People in Sorrow (1969)
George Russell: Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (1969)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Reese and the Smooth Ones (1969)
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Humility In The Light Of Creator (1969)
Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)
McCoy Tyner: Extensions (1970)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Les Stances A Sophie (1970)
Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music (1971)
Paul Bley: Dual Unity (1971)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Phase One (1971)
McCoy Tyner: Sahara (1972)
London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Ode (1972)
Weather Report: I Sing the Body Electric (1972)
Sam Rivers: Streams (1973)
Sam Rivers: Crystals (1974)
Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues (1974)

Steve Lacy: Saxophone Special (1974)
Jeanne Lee: Conspiracy (1974)
Keith Jarrett: Survivors Suite (1976)
George Lewis: Solo Trombone Record (1976)
George Lewis: Chicago Slow Dance (1977)
Leo Smith: Mass on the World (1978)
Roscoe Mitchell: LRG-Maze-S II Examples (1978)
Leroy Jenkins: Legend of Ai Glatson (1978)
Rova Saxophone Quartet: Cinema Rovate (1978)
Rova Saxophone Quartet: Removal of Secrecy (1979)
Lesli Dalaba: Trumpet Songs And Dances (1979)
Anthony Braxton: Alto Saxophone Improvisations (1979)
Dollar Brand: African Marketplace (1979)
Anthony Davis: Lady of the Mirrors (1980)
Rova Saxophone Quartet: Invisible Frames (1980)
Anthony Davis: Episteme (1981)
Anthony Davis: Variations In Dream-time (1982)
Henry Threadgill: When Was That (1982)
Borbetomagus: Barbed Wire Maggot (1983)
Anthony Davis: Hemispheres (1983)
John Zorn: Locus Solus (1984)
Bill Frisell: Before We Were Born (1988)
Henry Threadgill: Rag Bush And All (1988)
Turtle Island String Quartet: Turtle Island String Quartet (1988)
Marty Ehrlich: Traveller's Tale (1989)
Tim Berne: Fractured Fairy Tales (1989)
Jane Ira Bloom: Art & Aviation (1992)
Franz Koglmann: Cantos I-IV (1993)
Myra Melford: Even the Sounds Shine (1994)
Butch Morris: Testament (1995)
Guillermo Gregorio: Approximately (1996)
Ivo Perelman: Seeds, Visions and Counterpoint (1996)
Guillermo Gregorio: Ellipsis (1997)
Spring Heel Jack: Disappeared (2000)
Supersilent: 5 (2001)
Marty Ehrlich: The Long View (2002)

>gave Wynton Marsalis's Citi Movement, Destinations Unknown, and Speak No Evil 7.5s
>meanwhile he gave Ptah El Daod, Freedom Now Suite and Improvisie 8.5s
I am reasonably upset

>Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1969)
based

>gives far more 9/10s to rock albums than jazz albums
>one of the jazz albums he gives 9/10 is actually a rock album
kinda cringe actually

Name fifteen 9/10 jazz albums.

Prove scaruffi doesn't listen to everything he reviews.

scaruffi.com/vol8/impossib.html

Alright, we have a bunch of ratings with a "?" next to it (which aren't even reviews). You are exaggerating.

Rock albums have more varied timbres (because rock musicians are not afraid of technology), more diverse forms, and less fluff (because they are not reliant upon improvisation). That there are more rock albums worth listening to is unsurprising.

Where did you find this?

scaruffi.com/jazz/50.html

why no ratings for the 40s?

Albums weren’t really a format for jazz until the 50’s (for the most part). Also, the early years of bebop were left unrecorded due to a long musicians strike, so very few singles in that regard.

reminder that music theory is almost completely impotent for describing timbre and lyrics and atmosphere, i.e. the main things in rock, pop, and hip hop

Lyrics aren’t music. And atmosphere is just a term bandied about by people who want to seem like they understand music when they obviously do not.

i'm pretty sure that in proportion to the number of albums he has covered he likes jazz way more