Strange frogman , I heard Eddie Harris Saturday on our jazz station , which according to Nielsein (?) has the biggest audience slice in the USA . Was going to find some Harris to post . "Compared to What " is absolutely fabulous ! Like a steam engine coming down the MAIN track at 110 mph .
I have some de-facto family Chinese students at U of MN in my condo complex .They and American kids can get out thousands of people on "smart" phones in a hour . I had them watch Grace at Berklee on my 55" off their I-phone and without telling them to they were at it right after .she finished .I hear she got a big audience at the Twin Cities Jazz Fest last Friday .
I think Jazz could get up to 10% in US , the last Classical concert will be in Tokyo .
I grieve for the swing era not for the music but for the difference 70% of the nation being on that same musical page made in all aspects of life .