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[quote=JunkyT;307108]If we as Jazz musicians think of our music as "art music", we are doomed. .....Jazz is soul music.

Well said and point well taken. Good food for thought.


Why should that be "unaccessible (sic) intellectually to most of the American public"?

I often wonder the same thing....but to the vast majority of people it is. So even though a jazz musician plays, in their opinion, music for the masses, it rarely is.

JunkyT...you are right on the money on your comments. I did not mean to put an attitude out there when I used the term "art music", but improvised music is an art. It is music to be listened to and diigested and that is where the disconnect begins with the masses. IMHO