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In Reply to: RE: Simple -- there aren't enough inmates who are seriously into jazz. posted by Rick W on September 26, 2014 at 09:54:18
I think jazz was an even bigger casualty than classical music, in regard to the network media transition that took place in the late 1960s.... Like classical, there was a lot of prime time jazz on television, which the likes of John Coltrane and Miles Davis made their marks, just like Leonard Bernstein on the classical side. When the programming was snubbed suddenly and permanently after that, the masses were shielded from the artists, and then the awareness went away. A cheap imitation took over, it was never the same.
Once again, the problem wasn't the product or even the audience.... The problem was the omnipresent network media opting to shape what people wanted instead of reflect what people wanted.
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There were some good shows dedicated to jazz on public tv channels, but outside of that the most jazz I can remember on tv was on Steve Allen's shows, and they were on late, not prime time. Variety shows like Ed Sullivan's had serious jazz VERY rarely.
TV networks are basically in the biz of selling soap. They care little what programming does that successfully and keeps their sponsors happy. If ratings for classical music or jazz on tv shows were high we'd be inundated with shows featuring that music.
Jazz might be dead but it's still music. Hip hop is not music even though it is popular.
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