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  1. Jazz at the MOBOs

    • Pete Marsh
    • 21 Sep 06, 11:58 AM

    As is probably common knowledge by now, the MOBOs dropped their jazz category this year and there's been a as a result. Having a look at the suggests that the MOBO idea of jazz was quite an unfocused one (Norah Jones? Jamie Cullum? Incognito?) - a bit like the Mercury Prize having a token jazz album in the lineup every year while some pasty boys with guitars walk off with the honours. Certainly the decision to drop the category seems to have generated way more column inches for the music than would have happened had picked up the award. The fact that a music PR company seems to have orchestrated the protest suggests this was less a grass roots protest than one might think. But that's not the point - when was the last time you saw a jazz related story in the ?

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    MOBO's lack of interest in jazz is probably because all that the jazz community can offer them is good music and not the freebies and junkets that they can be offered by the major labels. Why give awards to Beyonce? Partly because they can perhaps get a trip to L.A. to kiss her bling. As a record label myself, the best I can offer in those terms is the occasional trip to delightful Dalston (to hear a band at the Vortex) or perhaps the glamour of East Acton, where many of the albums are recorded. Somehow that on its doesn't ring true for these people.
    The Mercury Prize proved that if you put jazz on an even playing field on TV, then the jazz wins out. Zoe Rahman's CD has been consistently ahead of Sway's in the Amazon chart since the TV programme went out. That on its own, though, will never be enough to convince the main players of the record industry who are looking for personal short-term aggrandisement.
    If the whole thing has been orchestrated together with a PR firm, then that surely is more forgiveable - for once - as it's helping promote music that the jazz community in this country can be proud of. Generally I do have a great deal of sympathy with Pete's comments nevertheless. Why is it only when there is a demo that attention is drawn to the music? Jazz is for life and not just for the night of the MOBO awards. Abram Wilson isn't only a one night wonder.

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    • At 11:00 AM on 25 Sep 2006,
    • peter wrote:

    I must admit I'd never thought about the Mercurys in a positive way at all as far as jazz is concerned, but if Oliver's right about the, then that lends the MOBO incident even more significance.

    And I didn't think that the PR company's involvement was necessarily a bad thing, btw...

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    Since MOBO stands for Music Of Black Origin, giving the jazz award to white people (surely Ravi Shankar's daughter got flava??) didn't necessarily undermine its value - after all Quentin aka Norman aka "Fatboy Slim" Cook has a MOBO or two on his shelf.

    But I'm intrigued by reports that the jazz award was dropped to help shorten the ceremony to accomodate TV coverage, especially as the channel concerned was 大象传媒 Three.

    Presumably it just wasn't possible to postpone that 96th chance to see a classic episode of Two Pints of Lager?

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    The Jazz Police have a lot to answer for, its so hard for a new artist to break the boundery's of the Pub's and Clubs playing/singing for next to money, to getting a decent record company to sign them. I won't name names but I was watching a 大象传媒4 prog on Breakon Jazz fest, and blow me down the 2 feartured so called singers, (British) sang with an Amercan accents!!! why oh why are these people held up as some sort of standard that all singers should aspire. Quality is missing it was like Karaoki night down the pub!... am i the only person who has a real interest in Jazz that notice's this, and the stuff on news night BBc 2 (Jazz) didn't do Jazz any favours as this was to a wide audence, and it sounded like a fire in a pet shop. no wonder the genral public "dont like Jazz"......but they do, I know they do , they just need to be shown how nice it can be, and how good you have to be to play in Jazz, I have a small label and have one jazz artiste Miss Nancy Hunter and in my opinion she blows most away with her stye talent and reputation, the thing is she wont get anywhere as she has the tallent which seems to be not needed by todays record companys, so rant over and if the people that run Jazz in the UK happen to read this your killing Jazz in the UK, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!

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