The State of Jazz
Just found this article by John Fordham published in the Guardian today (thanks LondonJazz):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/17/jazz-noughties
As someone that first got into Jazz in around about Y2K, it’s very interesting reading other people’s views of how the music has changed and grown over the last ten years. As well as the music itself I think that audiences are changing too - it seems like jazz has become far more popular amongst young people recently, and more students seem to be clued up about whats happening outside of the charts than they were five years ago (Facebook, Spotify, and things like podcasting probably helped). Hopefully numbers at gigs will reflect that soon – the majority of Birmingham University students still turn down the opportunity to see a decent band for free in favour of spending all night at the same three clubs on Broad Street, but live nights seem to be on the up so who knows where we’ll be in 2020!
