The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.
However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.