Nick Colionne: Making a Difference for the Future

No one likes hearing dire predictions about the imminent demise of jazz as an art form. And yet it's hard to deny that jazz seems at times to be slowly fading into the background. The genre receives relatively scant airplay, and is frequently relegated to little more than footnotes in the annual Grammy awards show. Increasingly, jazz seems to be heard primarily as soundtracks for television shows, commercials and motion pictures. And we've all observed that most young people are seemingly no longer interested in jazz music, and that many kids don't even really know what it is. But perhaps most disturbing is the thought that those few young people who are learning about jazz frequently are doing so only from a historical perspective, as though it's already gone. A musical evolution seems to be pushing jazz to one side, in favor of rap, rock, and other more popular contemporary musical styles.

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