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Branford sounds off
According to Branford Marsalis in an ...“Jazz is in trouble. But the reason it’s in trouble is not because the music’s dying, but because the people who are playing don’t have a lot of talent. We have great players in terms of playing their instruments, but in terms of some kind of understanding of jazz, we don’t have a lot of talent right now.” and..."We need to be more like poets and less like pop stars."
Some might see this as somewhat ironic coming from someone who's spent their time hanging out with Sting and The Grateful Dead, leading their own dodgy rap groups or being the MD for Saturday Night Live...
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Post your commentBranford is a fool, innit.
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I agree with Branton Marsallis. One of the few people in jazz who is like a poet are Paquito D Rivera and Poncho Sanchez. I reccomend his music.
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As a recent book suggested, jazz is not dead, it is just living at a new address. The Wynton effect has led to a deadening orthodoxy as jazz students in the US are moulded into clones and anyone not fitting that definition of jazz struggles to get gigs. While all around the world, great jazz is coming out of unlikely places, including the UK.
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