[nickcarraway]

Duke Ellington didn't particularly like the name Jazz,he preferred just,"music."

[grobdriver]

resurrect it as Black American Music (BAM).

Oh *puke*.

[BitWielder1]

"Black American Music"? Sounds racist to me.
And the Rappers may have something to say about it.

[Da Coyote]

I heard gospel music, rags, jazz and MoTown, and loved ‘em, which installed and grew a strong respect and love for African American music.

Then I heard rap.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

jazz evolved to include many stellar white musicians who contributed mightily: Benny Goodman (who paved the way for Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson), Stan Getz, Bill Evans.

Not to mention Bix Biederbeke, Red Rodney, Art Pepper, Tal Farlow, Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day, Dave Brubeck, Les Paul, Charlie Haden, Stan Kenton, etc etc

[left that other site]

Rap and Hip-Hop have destroyed the Legacy of Black American Music.

It is left to White musicians (like myself) to share this beautiful heritage with Black Children.

[Salvey]

Truth is, the finest jazz contributors were white, dating back to Bix. How about Desmond, Konitz, Kenton, Pepper, Shank, Sheldon, Ferguson, Mulligan, Baker, Evans, Charlop, Woods, Getz, Cohn, Brubeck, Hamilton, Vache, Daniels, Zoot, Pass, Martino, DiFrancesco.....and on and on. These guys took the art form way beyond its primitive beginnings.

[jobim]

It's simply silly to suggest renaming a genre.

And as for Jazz being "in trouble": Jazz has secured its place, just as the other genre have secured theirs (Gregorian chant, polyphony, classical, folk, blues, jazz, popular vocal, country, rock). The sublime compositions of Jazz, primarly from the 1930s to the 1960s, are established for the ages in the same way that the compositions of the prominent classical composers from the 1700s to the early part of the 20th century are. Future generations will continue to find inspiration in Duke and Miles and Mingus and Blakey and Coltrane and Parker and Evans (Bill & Gil) and the Jones brothers and Hancock and multitudinous others. It's been cast in stone for the ages already.

[discostu]

My favorite jazz guy is Frank Zappa, it ain’t black music.

[blueunicorn6]

Let’s call it Black American Music.....Developed in White America. Makes as much sense.

[x]

Okay, call it BAM. Then next year or the year after, people will be arguing about whether the acronym "BAM" really and fully reflects the African-Americanness of the music or whether we should be calling it "Black American Music" every time.

Curiously, there were attempts to rename "jazz" virtually from the beginning. Some wanted to call Duke Ellington's music "African-American classical music." A contest in the 20s or 30s yielded "rhapsodoon," "peppa," "exilera," "Paradisa," and "glideola."

[PhiloBedo]

While we’re at it, let’s change the name of Basketball to Black American Ball.

The whole notion is ...weird.

[martin_fierro]

Oh, no no noooooo

Jazz is alive and well.

Kenny G playing "Linus and Lucy." GOOD STUFF

*snicker*