it s unfortunately evident that jazz market represents only 1% of the musical industry .people rather to turn their mind to the easy listening instead of listening real creativity and real creative artists that jazz produce.probably they have to keep out of their mind what they usually figure out about jazz like: pictures in black and white of 4 guys dressed with dark jackets and ties playing boring music ...with a bass player almost falling asleep on his contrabass in the middle of the tune...

most of the teenagers prefer to listen beyonce ,j-lo or 50 cents instead of billie holiday,dinah washington,monk or john coltrane...so ! this phenomena and it s not new of course tends to limit our possibilities to enlarge to a wider audience our music and artistry and this music called JAZZ...but jazz is not a ``ghetto-land``...it has to survive as longer as possible in the next decades...and centuries....
we live actually a big period of changement ...musical changes,new musical instruments appearing (mostly electronic),new technologies which could in the near future (I hope not!) ..supplant the instruments with which we play ...and share for years ago....

I was fortunate enough to listen (more than 30 years by now!),and play different kind of the music.but I deeply think that jazz needs to fudge cleverly through the fashions and time without denying his own identity.we need to collaborate more with the medias ,radios,t.v,internet...to show what jazz is..and will be....
a peace supreme,sheik-omar sanogo