Jazz and Pop Music

On June 29th, 2010, jazz writer Will Layman wrote an article entitled "Jazz Ain't Dead, But Charlie Parker Is -- So Let's Move On, Shall We?" Layman suggests that jazz will not survive unless it finds its way back into the "culture," by which he seems to mean "popular culture."

Layman is wrong to assert that the health of jazz is declining, and also that it in order for jazz to "get back on track," it needs to get "off the tracks of jazz." He's correct in noticing that young jazz musicians all over the world are making great music, but he is on the wrong track himself if he thinks that the current state of jazz needs a cure.

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