Tagged: Nicholas Payton

3:33pm

Tue January 17, 2012
Groove Notes

Is the word 'jazz' racist? Nicholas Payton says it is

Credit Associated Press

My best effort to summarize trumpeter Nicholas Payton’s post On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore is that he is saying the word “jazz” is racist, that jazz died in 1959, and “Jazz is a marketing ploy that serves an elite few. The elite make all the money while they tell the true artists it’s cool to be broke.”

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