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Billy B · 04-29-2007, 03:16 PM

I would like to see this get back on topic. The young jazz academics learn from guys like Pat Harbison and David Baker where as Pat Harbison and David Baker learned from people like Woody Shaw and George Russel. It doesn't matter where you live. That experience simply doesn't exist. Add in the degrees available from university and you have a scene similar to what happened to classical music. This turned off a lot of listeners as a certain amount of academic snobbery took place.

The question still stands and I think it is an important one that Jazz educators must ask themselves regularly.
Has academia provided the vehicle for the preservation of Jazz or has it become an elitist club that limits the common man's accessibility to this music called Jazz?

04-29-2007, 03:16 PM	#11 (permalink)
Billy B Pianissimo User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Des Moines, IA Posts: 213	Re: The Young Jazz Academics I would like to see this get back on topic. The young jazz academics learn from guys like Pat Harbison and David Baker where as Pat Harbison and David Baker learned from people like Woody Shaw and George Russel. It doesn't matter where you live. That experience simply doesn't exist. Add in the degrees available from university and you have a scene similar to what happened to classical music. This turned off a lot of listeners as a certain amount of academic snobbery took place. The question still stands and I think it is an important one that Jazz educators must ask themselves regularly. Has academia provided the vehicle for the preservation of Jazz or has it become an elitist club that limits the common man's accessibility to this music called Jazz?