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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: You're not seeing the big picture. Jazz record labels became unprofitable/unsustainable in the '60s posted by Rick W on May 4, 2015 at 12:20:36:
Me too. The mid-60s marked the end of the era of (relatively) high public profile for classical music in the US. The Voice of Firestone went off the air in 1963, and the Bell Telephone Hour followed in 1968. Classical radio began a slow but consistent decline. The introduction of the CD in the mid 80s made (nearly) everyone repurchase their music collections, but that only stalled the decline for about 15 years.I don't think Ed Sullivan knew sh#t about music, but Johnny Carson sure did. He may not have had all the best jazzers on his show, but Buddy Rich and Pete Fountain were regular guests, as were a number of other very good ones. He favored ultra-uptempo tunes and fleet-fingered players for both jazz and classical acts, which he also featured, including Eugene Fodor (many times), Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and James Galway.
Once Carson retired, I can't think of another big mainstream prime time show regularly featuring classical music. OTOH, David Letterman regularly featured David Sanborn, who is great imo, though that was late night, post-prime time. You could still find some jazz elsewhere on TV too. Classical music, otoh, disappeared almost entirely except for public TV. Dick Cavett routinely interviewed classical stars, but that wasn't a music show.
But all that doesn't mean jazz or classical music died in the 80s, obviously. They had and still have many devoted followers, just more as niche genres than mainstream. The internet has done a lot to compartmentalize the niche genres, so they may not be so visible to those who aren't interested in them, but they are very much still there.
Isn't all that obvious?
Edit: And you can still hear great live jazz all over the place. Jazz did not "die" in the 60s. It just became less prominent on the front page and network TV.
Edits: 05/07/15
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