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Thread #156935 Message #3702913
Posted By: The Sandman
19-Apr-15 - 09:00 AM
Thread Name: Why does modern music sound so different
Subject: RE: Why does modern music sound so different
BIX BEIDERBECKE, great jazz musician, had to earn his living playing commercial music with the paul whiteman orchestra , but in his spare time in his own bands, produced brilliant jazz, that was innovative at the time, there was no room for innovation in whitemans commercial band, whiteman did not allow bix to have his artistic head, and so it goes on example after example of commercialisation stopping innovation, same thing with glenn millers band, and i haveclose of this experience my uncle nat peck played in glenn millers band and has publicly said that the music got jazzier[less commercial after millers death], miller was working to some extent to a commercial formula., not as exaggerated as the spice girls or westlife but stil putting constraint upon musicians, the musicians had littl;e artistic control