[Harp-L] Pop is for the weak.

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hunter" <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Chris Michalek" 
<Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject:  Pop is for the weak.?

> Jazz isn't hard to find on the radio because of payola.  Jazz is hard to
> find because stations that play a lot of jazz attract fewer listeners
> than stations that play a lot of pop.  Period.

I would characterize jazz as music for musicians. Improvisation is not 
appreciated by many listeners. I prefer  New Orleans to modern style jazz 
and can't say exactly why. My intellectual/musical horizons just are not 
wide enough to encompass modern jazz and atonal classical music.  I wish 
that they were.

> It's not surprising to me that music that's more complex intellectually
> and emotionally has a smaller audience.  It's surprising that so many
> musicians who should know better think that putting their brilliant,
> emotionally and/or intellectually complex music in front of a larger
> audience will make it more popular than the Bay City Rollers.
> Again, this isn't about what sucks and what sings.

Art is what the artist says it is....... but consumers buy what they like!

Vern
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