Jazz is a lie. America is a lie … Playing Jazz is...

2:11 pm - Tue, Jan 10, 2012: 3 notes

Jazz is a lie. America is a lie … Playing Jazz is like running on a treadmill: you may break a sweat, but ultimately you ain’t going nowhere. I am Nicholas Payton and I don’t play ‘the j word.’ I play BAM. BAM is an acronym for Black American Music.

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton “On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore”. A brief quote won’t do his piece justice. Few musicians can put together two sentences, let alone an epic manifesto killing the very brand that has carried their career. Bravo.

http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/on-why-jazz-isnt-cool-anymore/