How come cacs didnt hijack jazz like they did rock n roll??

[Shadow King]

Grover Washington

Was white?

 

[Northern Son]

They didn't hijack it, but almost every newer jazz player in the western world is a middle aged white guy.

Whites always want to be a part of African American music and Jazz wasn't an exception.

Was white?

 

[radio rahiem]

Was white?

Negged

 

[Northern Son]

The jazz musicians I thought of off the top of my head are white.

Either you're lying about knowing jazz musicians period, you're only familiar with the likes of Kenny G and Amy Winehouse, or you're an omega level c00n.

Come on now, that's like somehow only knowing famous white basketball players .

 

[Regine Hunter]

Didn't Kenny G kind of do that?

don't sleep Kenny G got some bangers

 

[3rdWorld]

I never got the Kenny G hate..he wasnt the worst of these biting ass cacs

 

[69 others]

they don't hijack shyt it's we that abandoned these genres and they adapt it. no way they could jack shyt when we're active in them. it's a damn shame to think that jazz and other classic black music genres have to rely on whites only to survive while we support and defend dumb ass rap music as the sole voice of black culture

 

[Doctor Wily]

They almost hijacked Bossanova jazz as well

 

[RatherUnique]

White Americans didn't take over Rock n Roll in the same way White Englishmen did tho. My favorite old White Rock bands are almost all British. With some exceptions.

 

[YouMadd?]

Miles probably literally wanted to smack fire outta this dude...

 

[YouMadd?]

The primary face of Jazz stayed black for one reason and one reason only: Miles Davis, but even then the genre had become watered down in the 70's when the fusion style of jazz came in, and that was basically white guitarists wanting Jazz credibility without applying themselves as creatively as the purer jazz musicians

But the thing about Jazz that's different from any other genre, it's forerunners always gave credit where credit was do, whether black or white. Nobody ever hid behind a fanbase or took credit for anybody else's work....but a lot of that had to do with those old timers being willing to throw down during that era over that type of stuff

But you can't look at what happened to Jazz the same way as what happened to Rock N Roll. Jazz became an international force and had a level of comraderie and unity that no other genre was able to achieve. Besides, the best bass guitarist of all time was a white man (Jaco Pastorius)

I swear to god you can find elements of the last 30 years of music in Weather Report's discography...

 

[IllmaticDelta]

now a lot of cacs did jazz and some did take songs from blacks but how come they didn't completely take over the genre and phase out blacks like they did with rock music??

Black people that were doing Rock N Roll type stuff got marketed as Blues, Rhytm and BLues and later, Soul and Funk. "Rock" became code for "white music".

 

[cole phelps]

Black people that were doing Rock N Roll type stuff got marketed as Blues, Rhytm and BLues and later, Soul and Funk. "Rock" became code for "white music".

question did black parents hate rock n roll/rhythm and blues like white parents or nah?

 

[Cat piss martini]

jazz takes having a soul and talent.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

They kinda did