«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

Maybe the stress of the next 4 years will produce better lyrics although frankly I would prefer lower cost of living peacefully achieved as promised. I will not allow myself to be distracted from what was promised.

@tyray 

Lucky you -- it sounds like you live in an area that's unusually hospitable to Jazz! 

I listened to the Snarky Puppy tune and it may well exemplify the future of Jazz. Jazz will change, as it always has. As long as I can keep listening to what I like, I'm content. 

@stuartk ,

Yeah, and other reasons the ATL area colleges and promoters support (jazz) musicians a lot. Kinda similar to when back in our day when a lot of music groups went to (toured) college campuses cause the had the already built facilities to hold such venues for students with a somewhat disposable income, and reasons to party! And the Culture of Jazz too, of course!

@mahgister 

I don't think that young people right now are into jazz...

It would seem implausible. Nobody has done a recent study on the subject, and I doubt it is a pressing matter for anyone at this point, so I would say that you just may be right!

@ezwind

...right now I'd have to say it's on a downward arc. That's not to say that jazz music itself isn't in a good place - there are many really good, young jazz artists out there these days. We just need more people to go and see them.

I have read that a number of great jazz clubs closed due to the pandemic. A couple were in NYC. Most jazz musicians, I assume, make their money performing live. Hence, I agree that if you do not support jazz by going to shows, the genre will continue to diminish. 

@devinplombier

Sadly, I read the news.

And while Canada has provided us with Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Cowboy Junkies, and the Guess Who..that is just not enough to entice me to buy a gun and form a militia of like-minded folks who want to make Canada pay for their aging fleet of musical geniuses.

And as no one has yet to point out, if Canada becomes a state, we will have one heck of a wall to build! 

I have no idea where you get your facts from. Some guy from a paper he wrote in the UK?

Here’s factual, digitally video recorded, dated and empirical evidence even Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles could see. Drone pilot Phin Percy shot this awesome aerial video of the big New Orleans Jazz Fest crowd last weekend. 04/27/2016

Please watch the entire video. Aerial view of the 2022 45th Annual Jazz Fest | Atlanta GA.

You read me wrong...

I never say that there is not many young in jazz...

I said that compared to 1960 the % is lower for many reason : many different niche genres born from pop and folk ...

Access easy to this  new genres through a phone...

I also said that the future of jazz is there and growing... You miss this...

Because with the internet in all countries jazz music is trending way more than in 1970 now...

Jazz is no more only black as in 1930, no more American as in 1960 it is universal music phenomenon as classical...it is born in black america but reach all earth in a way no other genre music did save classical...

One of my favorite music genre is Yoruba talking drums and Indian tabla, i love rythms but it will never go around the earth as jazz did ...

Jazz is now eternal... It will not fade into oblivion...

But young generation need education to it as with classical for the same reasons: sophisticated music evolution need to be learned...