The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set.
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Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
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