Tenor Madness writes “Hey, just thought I’d say how great this site is!! I love it..theres so much good stuff on here. I like the solo transcriptions..they are hard to find. I got a question for everyone. How do you think Jazz has shaped music as it is today and how has it affected the economy? I personally think it has made a huge impact..what is everyones thoughts/reasoning?
~Tenor Madness~”
Not sure what you mean. Jazz is on the low end of the music industry right now. There is not a lot of profit to be made selling jazz compared to N-Sync. I think that the internet and the ability for artists to push their music via it has helped out the last few years.
I think one problem is that there are so many people out there that are good, how do you figure out who would appeal to a mass market? I mean, with a group like N-Sync, the singing might not be the best in the world. But you can market it. You can get thousands of kids to come in and buy CDs, go to concerts, etc. But say try that with Michael Brecker….and you just can get the return. It’s sad, but true. I remember playing with Brecker at CSUH in 1998(?) and someone asked him about touring. He said he didn’t really make any money touring.
As for shaping music today….I dunno. Depends. You hear more jazz type horns and stuff in music today. It’s way better than the Rap crap we had going. I think artists like Nelly Furtado, and Alicia Keyes have some good jazz type things happening in their music. But, on the flip side, you have groups like Linkin Park which seem to be a Hard Metal/Rap mixture. I think music from all styles blends into other styles. What I’d like to see is some pop group try to explore bitonal music. Or perhaps 12 tone music. At least most of the pop groups I listen to seem to have a richer harmonic palette than they used to.
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