Thursday, March 2, 2017

"Stop fucking the dead and embrace the living." Nicholas Payton/ Trumpet

"Stop fucking the dead and embrace the living." Nicholas Payton/ Trumpet
Is jazz really dead? No. It just smells that way. I post these articles to make us even more aware of the decline of jazz music and the livelihood of jazz musicians that is dripping away. Tony Adamo
ROBERT GLASPER: 2012. It's kind of hard to accidentally discover new jazz. You actually have to listen to a jazz station or read a jazz magazine; there's probably only 25 jazz stations in the whole U.S. And nine times out of 10, when you turn it on, they're playing stuff from like 1950. It makes the music sound old—like it's already done and now we're just paying homage. It's a generational gap, just like it's hard to make some 75-year-old like Lil Wayne.

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