Is jazz dead?

Considering the zero airplay jazz music gets, particularly modern stuff, I'd say it's in pretty fine health. Yes you do have to actively look for new acts, but that's half the fun. I'm a huge Pat Metheny fan, I've seen him live four times now, including last month with Brad Mehldau..FANTASTIC!

Jazz is far more liberating to the soul to listen to than the repetative 4/4 of most rock music & I love it for that.

The reason most people don't like it is because it's often far more challenging to the ear, it doesn't all sound the same. Nobody else sounds like Pat Metheny, or Keith Jarret, or Jan Garbarek etc. It certainly floats my boat!!

To quote the Great Man again..MAKE A JAZZ NOISE!!

That link that you posted was pretty amazing. Those were some super musicians.

I live near Manhattan. I can tell you that jazz is alive. Its on a small scale, but the quality is very good. Its a new sound too. Way too good for the masses.

I'm more of a mid to late 1960's jazz fanatic. I like Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Sam Rivers, Jaki Byard. But I did see Jeff Beck in concert, about 10 years ago. Wow!

I saw Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley playing an outdoor gig in Blagdon yesterday afternoon. The audience was a bit small. But the guys were smokin'

No way

and Jazz Fusion rocks

I play trumpet and I either want to start a prog rock band where I play keys or a fusion band with a trumpet

I play in a jazz big band (trombone 1 & 2). I'm not dead. Neither is the music we play, nor the crowds that come to listen to us when we play.

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To quote a radio DJ, musical genres can be compared to various landscapes. You can have the rocky landscape of rock music. You can have the beach landscape of reggae music. You can have the factory machine landscape of techno music. Jazz, however, is a distant alien planet with an unbreathable atmosphere.

no jazz is not dead! in fact we have our own local jazz club called jazzerie. we also have an awesome jazz band at our school that recently went to europe (france and switzerland) to perform. i think montreux jazz sponsored them, too.

nope nope nope

The Bad Plus' new album is pretty recent

it isn't dead to me!

No, it's alive and well and living on "The Jazz" on digital radio!

to me it just sounds like needless exercises in scales and drum solos

weren't the originals doing heroin and stuff?

that helped to enjoy it Im sure