Why is there hardly ever any Jazz music on TV?


Not overly keen on jazz music but part of the reason I like the bosch TV series is the jazz songs that get played in the background every now and again
 
I think many of the posts here have answered the thread's question. I used to hate jazz too and may have posted in a similar fashion if I could have back in the 70s. Certainly if I'd heard the likes of Sun Ra or Thelonious Monk as my first exposure to jazz I would probably have been put for life. I had heard and liked some of Dave Brubeck. One of his numbers was used in a TV advert when I was a kid. Then Paul Simon released his Still Crazy After All These Years album. I'm a huge Simon fan but I hated the jazz sound on this. I eventually got into it and loved the album. It's still one of my favourite albums and I now realise it's only slightly jazzy.

I started listening to albums by some of the musicians on that album. It was only a few years later when the Gil Evans Orchestra played Newcastle. The band had David Sanborn on sax and Low Soloff on trumpet. I'd seen Sanborn on Paul Simon's Still Crazy tour and my girlfriend knew Soloff from his playing with Blood Sweat And Tears so we went to see them. I also bought Gil's album There Comes A Time beforehand. It had some quite accessible stuff on it like an excellent version of Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix but there was also some extremely difficult listening on it. The concert was also hard work but I eventually got into the album and it's another one of my favourites now. I'd urge anyone to give jazz a go. Try and find the easier stuff like Take Five by Dave Brubeck. If you can get into it it's worth the effort.
 
Steely Dan is as close to Jazz as I can get mind, appreciate a lot like it though. Saying that years ago (70's) my mates dad was into it and he used to have a really top end hi fi and it sounded much better on that.
 
I used to watch all those late night BBC2 repeats of black and white sixties programmes in the 1980s. I am in awe ogmf guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass. Not so bothered with all the fusion stuff but there is always something.

Jazz, Folk and Blues are older forms and get less airtime on tv now. The core audience have got old and died, yet they all thrive. BBC4, hanging on now sadly, no longer makes regular music documentaries and the once unmissable Friday night music is mostly repeats and they have given the position to Sky Arts, though they don,'t compare with BBC4 at its best.

This is a great series, full of characters
 

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