[Dixielandjazz] Jazz - Hearing the Good Stuff

[Steve Barbone]

"Edgerton, Paul A" <paul.edgerton at eds.com> (polite snip)
 
> And for the record, it's bad enough when people who don't call
> themselves jazz musicians get tossed into the same section at Borders,
> but what *really* bugs me is the incredible amount of self-indulgent
> anti-jazz (which annihilates real jazz on contact) being foisted on the
> public by people who should know better.  It's no big mystery why so
> many people don't like jazz: they hardly ever hear the *good* stuff!

Consider this. If G is in the jazz section, and sells 75 million albums
since 1993 or so, and by your theory, those people think it's Jazz, then
they must also think it is indeed, the "good" stuff since they keep buying
it.

Self Indulgence? Is that what we call pleasing the audience? Seems to me it
is the other way around. Playing stuff that doesn't please the audience is
self-indulgence. (or what I would call "musical masturbation")

I don't think G or his clones are responsible for the lack of OKOM record
sales. I think we haven't, except for a few bands, learned how to play OKOM
that appeals to today's mass audience.

Then again, maybe most of us really don't want to and that's OK too :-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone