«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

@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...

Jazz is no more only black as in 1930, no more American as in 1960 it is universal music phenomenon

Besides the fact that holding forth on which culture belongs to whom is kind of a hazardous pastime nowadays, it is also misleading.

Take the blues. It was Black folks who graced the world with it; that’s not really open for debate. Neither is the fact that, way back in the hallowed (in this thread at least) 60s and 70s, numerous bands made up of white, skinny, vocational-school dropout British kids with bad teeth appropriated it and "adapted" it into something deemed acceptable by white suburban teenagers and their parents, and became filthy rich doing it.

Is it to say that, just because it was dragged away from its roots, the blues is no longer black music like it was back in the 50s? Has its being appropriated, plundered and exploited by white folks and white record companies somehow whitewashed it into a global musical genre? Sorry I don’t follow

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