[Trombone-l] GOOD music on the web

[John Burton]

That brings up a terrible point.  In my 'day job' I'm the IT director for an accounting firm in Charleston, WV.  Over the last several months I've modified the old and somewhat goofy Music On Hold to include big-band sounding cuts, girl-singer sounding cuts and in general a bit more human music than the old and outdated "Musak" stuff with which up we've put for years!  (Yes, I've done enough research to be certain I'm not using music that'll require payment other than I've already paid .. this is not a comment on that).
 
I was chatting with one of our partners this morning and they wanted more "Kenny G" type music rather than the big band or girl singer stuff.  They feel that that type music attracts and keeps customers "more better"...
 
I guess the mandatory trombone content (MTC) of this comment would be, why do we (as amateur musicians) bother to play forward music that we consider be of a higher quality only to be rebuffed because "no one likes that kind of music any more.  Play more <Kenny G, Snoop Dogg, et al)...
 
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john burton 
Bach 50B3 
Bass Trombone, Charleston NeoPhonic Orchestra 
South Charleston, West Virginia 

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>
>Geez, that music's older than me, and I'm past my sell by date, but hey! I
>like it.
>

Adrian,

You've got a point, here.

Yes, I suppose appreciation for jazz has waned, over the years, but way back
when, pop music and dance music was all considered jazz.  As such, lots of
people listened to it, people who had no particular taste in music, what so
ever.

Now that pop music has moved away from jazz, there are very few converts to
jazz.  There's no pier-pressure, getting people to listen to jazz.  And jazz
listeners have no buying power, to speak of.

It's no wonder that the only jazz, one hears on commercial radio is
queasy-listening and jazzy hip-hop.  One might ask, in fact I will, if
calling such forms of music jazz does more harm than good, in keeping "real"
jazz (whatever that is) alive.

DanP