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I'm sick and tired of seeing that Jazz doesn't get its due at the Grammy's, It's time we all come together and have a strong voice... Who's with me?
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Comment by Donna McAfee on March 23, 2010 at 3:06pm
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Watch 19 year old sax sensation J Boykin on the video page at www.lajazztv.com
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Comment by Topsy M. Durham on January 6, 2010 at 10:30pm -
About the "posers", that is so true. I hear a person like http://www.myspace.com/rachelleferrell and I just can't believe she is not a superstar, like say Barbra Streisand (who can also bring tears to my eyes but is too expensive for me to go see!).
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Comment by Ms. Lorna Shuford on January 5, 2010 at 2:39pm
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I am with you guys! Let me know I am also an event coordinator and know a lot of Jazz artist, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish speaking, who are interested, too.
I also have a friend, that can design a unique trophy.
Let me know.
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Comment by Morrie Louden on December 11, 2009 at 12:47pm -
With jazz representing a mere 5% of music sales, you can imagine why it is overlooked. Grassroots efforts to teach jazz to school age children will ensure that the genre has future audiences.
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Comment by Mode Purple on November 24, 2009 at 3:09pm
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I decided it was time to act, and made a formal complaint to Virgin Media in the UK about the lack of a Jazz genre in their music on demand service !
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I'm with you Jaijai,
but it's not just Grammy's. I switch to my music on demand service on cable here in the UK (Virgin Media) and Jazz isn't even listed as a genre I can select from !. No wonder it's losing popularity.
Best Regards
Brian
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Comment by Ronnie Burrage on November 18, 2009 at 8:10am -
Hi Jason, long time?
I would like to say I understand this is a business, it should be our business musicians of all stature to support one another with encouragement, working platforms and communication. Rewards should be for new creation and advancement of this music. I beleive that when we come to understand without this type of support we are only going backward as we have been because if we don't make heard and known what we do and who we are, it remains in the hands of record companies, managers, commercial agencies that only promote who they think and have made popular enhancing their futures. Jaijai, you have done wonders, and I thank you for your never ending love and work, but as musicians we have to step up to a higher spiritual plain and reach for more than material gain.
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Comment by HARLEM JAZZ NOTES on November 18, 2009 at 7:56am -
We can say that A Jazz Grammy is long over due, but time is what Jazz music is about. Is'nt it?
Keep up the good works Jai Jai.
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Comment by Jason Miles on November 17, 2009 at 11:19am -
Ronnie and I go waay back-he's knows the deal.These days many people believe it's about chops and technique and not about feeling.Feeling Soul,Knowledge and respect get to where you need to go.It does take a while though. I don';t know how many people recognize this
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Comment by Joani Taylor on November 17, 2009 at 10:56am -
I totally agree with you Ronnie. Things ain't what it used to be.
Too little work. Too many posers. Few get the depth of the art, or the value to the human spirit.
Jaijai, what a wonderful mission you've undertaken to create such a place for artistic minds to meet and share their hearts. A place to renew faded determinations, and revive lessened momentums. A place to display our wares and reconfirm to one another that we actually are on the right track.
I commend you, Jaijai, for caring so much that you created this castle of the heart for all of us. I want to share my praise for all of the new friends as well as old friends that I've met and will meet here in our castle. Here we can garnish the where-with-all, the strength, the conviction, and the selflessness through our symbiosis, to share our gift to the world with an unbiased agenda.
My mentor, Daisaku Ikeda says of art: "A beautiful flower delights and refreshes the hearts of all people equally, no matter what soil it grows in. That is the power of beauty. The same is true of great art. It is this spirit that the German poet Heinrich Heine sang of when he wrote that once the peapod bursts open, the sugar peas inside are for everyone to enjoy."
Let's be audacious, my friends!
Buster Williams
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