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Whatever happened to Jazz music?

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I've been a jazz critic for a decade and while I personally love the music, I fear for its future. read more

Jazz music is hard for musicians to play. It takes way more investment to get really good at jazz than for most popular music. The jazz musician gets deeply drawn into their own music and is always trying to push their own boundaries and limits. read more

As the music industry became big business, jazz struggled to compete. Jazz radio stations have all but disappeared from the airwaves. And with the advent of MTV as a major driver in music trends, jazz became a niche genre. read more

Ever since he started out at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s, his scintillating, neologism-rich, theoretically supple prose, and his passion for championing innovative new genres such as post-rock, drum and bass and grime - often before they have been codified into genres - have made him one of Britain's most influential music writers. read more

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