«Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato

Now i will link together what i said about jazz universality and classical music universality and the discovery of Dr. Essien.

All music is universal, in any genre from any countries by definition of this second article experiment above and by Dr. Essien great discovery...

Then why i spoke only about jazz universality and classical music universality ?

Is it not contradictory ?

No

Jazz is the only language becoming universal by virtue of his improvising syntax set of rules integrating all instruments and music styles slowly but surely ...

Classical European music is becoming universal by virtue of his WRITING syntax rule integrating all others world music language ...

All music of the world is universal in the sense of owning the potentials to be understood by all humans... Because music is a recognizing timbre/rytmic /tonal event based on mechanical invariant (Essien) affecting the human body in a similar way universally ..

It is not Pythagorean mathematics harmonies abstraction and computations that makes music universal , it is the ability by the human heart-brain-body to be affected by it in the same way all around earth ...

The sound sources vibrating communicate  qualities and information about what vibrate and his state...This is the mechanical invariant of Dr. Essien...

When a man speak to another man there is information communicating to one another about their psychological and physical states...

i will stop here ... Read the book...

@onhwy61: Ghost World, a favorite movie of mine! Another great scene is the one in which the young girl asks Steve Buscemi’s character if the R. Crumb album is good. "Naw, that one’s not so great." Director Terry Zwigoff and Crumb are of course close friends (Zwigoff made the Crumb documentary).

This may be a minority opinion, but as I watched Blues Hammer performing, Ten Years After came to mind.

As a previously frequent poster on the Jazz For Aficionados thread would often point out, (paraphrase, “just because there is improvisation doesn’t mean it is Jazz”.

Jazz and Classical music sales, as a percentage of total music sales of all genres, have seldom broken the 2% mark for quite a few decades. This does not mean that there haven’t been up-ticks in sales and general interest as is the case currently, but still in the 1.5-2% range. Data also shows that when asked, about 10-20% of respondents say that they listen to “Jazz”. Why the asterisk?

Much of the music that many listeners listen to is not Jazz in the traditional sense. It is R&B, Rock, Funk, whatever, WITH ELEMENTS OF JAZZ. Particularly in the improvisation (when it is there) which is often heavily informed harmonically by Jazz.

@tyray , I very much appreciate your enthusiasm and optimism for Jazz and its future. I share your optimism inasmuch as I believe that there will always be a small minority (2% +/-) that will buy Jazz. However and sadly, I doubt this number will ever be substantially higher than this and certainly not as it was decades ago when Jazz was the Pop music of the day. I do think that there is somewhat more interest in Jazz among young (25-45) listeners today. SOMEWHAT more, but still a very small percentage of the total number of young listeners. Your own posts prove my point, I think. What you posted as examples of “Jazz” that young people listen to and even play, I wouldn’t call Jazz at all, but more as I described above… Funk/R&B with elements of Jazz.

Here is the lineup for the 2016 NOLA Jazz Fest, aerial view of which you posted as further proof. Might explain the huge crowd, but Jazz?! I did see Wayne Shorter and Preservation Hall Jazz Band among the others listed, but still…..

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/01/jazz_fest_2016_stevie_wonder_p.html

@mahgister 

Jazz is the only language becoming universal by virtue of his improvising syntax set of rules integrating all instruments and music styles slowly but surely ...

I'm confused. There are plenty of other genres that incorporate improvisation.  I don't know what you mean by  "improvising syntax set of rules integrating all instruments". Are you referring to simultaneous improvisation and drawing a line between it and the more common approach wherein individual  players play solos in turn? 

@bdp24 Blues Hammer is Blues Hammer and you just have to accept it as such.  I guess you can say they're sincere.  There's a story about Sonny Boy Williams when he used the Yardbirds as his backing band while touring England.  I don't have the exact quote, but he said something along the lines of "these boys want badly to play the blues -- and they do".

Despite what Sonny Boy said I love the Yardbirds doing "I'm A Man".

It may not really be blues, but it is inspired.  How can you not like Jeff Beck and his Fender Esquire?