XPost: rec.music.bluenote   
   From: hepkatreetaroonie@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:54:41 GMT, JC Martin    
   wrote:   
      
   >Melodious Thunk wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article , "Larry Guichard"   
      
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>Though I love it, jazz has never been very main stream in music.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Sure it has. As J. Scott pointed out, what's now called "the jazz age," and   
   "the swing era" that   
   >> followed it marked periods when the popular music of north american was   
   jazz.   
   >>   
   >> Nowadays, jazz aficionados tend to look down on popular artists who, were   
   they not popular,   
   >> would be hard-pressed *not* to be called jazzers. "Rock" acts such as Sting   
   and Steely Dan are   
   >> essentially jazz artists; and there's no need to point out how much product   
   Kenny G. moves, is   
   >> there?   
   >   
   >They're hardly jazz artists.  Influenced by jazz?  Sure.  Improvisation?   
   >  No.   
   >   
   This is a superb example of the triumph of marketing, that well   
   meaning people can state, and evidently believe, that Sting and Steely   
   Dan play jazz. As to the amount of product that Kenny G moves, that's   
   a complete non sequitur, unless one wants to assert that the Beatles   
   played jazz, as evidenced by the amount of product they moved.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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