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Robert Glasper’s “Message to the Jazz Police”

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Topic: Robert Glasper’s “Message to the Jazz Police”

Posted By: snobb
Subject: Robert Glasper’s “Message to the Jazz Police”
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2018 at 8:19am

Grammy-winning pianist and composer Robert Glasper has hit out at the ‘Jazz Police’ in a fiery message posted on his Instagram page. He says he’s exasperated with too much light being focussed on the historical jazz players, and not enough on the young musical innovators of today. “You’re gonna kill the music if you only support people who are dead” he says, “you’ve got to start supporting younger music, it’s very very important. The tradition of jazz is that it always changes, it keeps moving and it never stays the same”.

Glasper says “young people have always carried that torch”, pointing out that innovators like Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock were in their early twenties when they first became household names, and we need that support now to keep it moving because it puts jazz on a bigger pedestal and makes us part of a bigger conversation.”

The video is available to watch below:

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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2018 at 9:54am

I understand his concern, but ultimately old or new does not matter near as much as the quality of the music. Whether something is a 'classic' or 'the latest thing' won't matter much in the long run if the music lacks substance.