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Interesting Article: Why Americans Don't Like Jazz

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A musician friend sent me this URL...
Why Americans Don't Like Jazz
http://www.dyske.com/index.php?view_id=778

It starts... "The current market share of Jazz in America is mere 3 percent. And, that includes all the great ones like John Coltrane and the terrible ones like Kenny G. There are many organizations and individuals like Winton Marsalis who are tirelessly trying to revive the genre, but it does not seem to be working. Why is this? Is there some sort of bad chemistry between the American culture and Jazz? As ironic as it may be, I happen to believe so."

Comments onn the article?

73s
 
Interesting article. People are more interested in lyrics than the instrumental and we can see this now since SJ is the only commercial format still around, although it's slowly dying and the fact that more non-instrumental (or non-SJ for that matter) content is being played like Phil Collins and Celine Dion. Another trend that I'm noticing now is the whole remaking of old R&B songs into instrumental SJ hits.
 
americans don't like jazz because they are sub-educated people who are saturated with awful two note "music." I swear, these (urban) artists basically re-make children's songs and make them so simplified that I could teach them to my kindergarden music class (since most of the songs I teach them only have two or three notes), except I won't becasue of the unnecessiary sexual innuendo in these songs. What happened to LOVE SONGS???????
 
sdh483 said:
americans don't like jazz because they are sub-educated people who are saturated with awful two note "music." I swear, these (urban) artists basically re-make children's songs and make them so simplified that I could teach them to my kindergarden music class (since most of the songs I teach them only have two or three notes), except I won't becasue of the unnecessiary sexual innuendo in these songs. What happened to LOVE SONGS???????
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Glad to see this thread revived, I'll answer the last two at the same time.

To SDH... A lot of modern music, especially that which is euphemistically
(izzat a word?) called "urban" , is lousy music with offensive lyrics, shouted
and/or mumbled rather than sung. No redeeming social value. Which leads
into the second reply...

To Josh... I'm no musician, but even I can recognize that most of today's
music is so unsophisticated and childish that, without lyrics to attract
attention, it's a bore. That's why there is no instrumental music any
more, save classical and jazz genres (AFAIK). I remember in the 60s
and 70s, there were great instrumental songs like Telstar, Wipeout,
and Classical Gas, to name a few, on the charts. Do instrumental songs
even get on the charts any more?

Yesterday I was transcribing some old LPs onto my PC. When I got
to Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, I started humming
along (before the lyrics started -- don't know the words anyway).
Are any of today's songs so memorable that they will be recognizable
by the melody alone seventy years from now? I think not. I don't
think anything written since the sixties will be that memorable.
BTW, that LP was called The Flirty 30's. And in case you're
wondering, yes, that was looooong before I was born. I
may be an opinionated old ph@rt -- but not that old.

73s
 
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