When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.
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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.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
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.
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