The modern jazz scene unironically sucks (hexbear.net)

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Maybe it’s different around the world but where I live it is EXCLUSIVELY the purview of yuppie rich kids who go to fancy music schools. There is not a non-white person in sight. It’s also completely male dominated and most of those males are completely terrible with women (based on stories I’ve heard from femmes in that scene).

Like yeh they’re talented musicians but they’re insufferable and it’s classist and sexist and just gives me the ick big time. They colonised jazz folks.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I might be wrong, but Wynton and Branford Marsalis are partially to blame for jazz becoming more of an "academic" thing to study at university music programs.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Which is funny because the one time I saw Wynton Marsalis in concert he acknowledged the lack of women and encouraged young women to get more involved. He's probably oblivious to the negative effect he had on everything. There needs to be more—dare I say it—DEI in jazz education.

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