Jazz for aficionados

Junkies:

Being a musician does not make you do drugs, or give you the 'right' to be an addict.  There were thousands of men going to work everyday at jobs all over NY, and the country for that matter, who did not do drugs.

Musicians have a talent few people have, if they can not see that, and be thankful and make the most of that,  then shame on them.   Save your pity for the innocent people close to them that really suffered.

I think the OP is addicted to Kool Aid.

Cheers

Being a musician does not make you do drugs, nor does being a human being, but I would never try to take advantage of a person who's as low as he can go.

Maybe society will change it's attitude about drugs now that it's not just "jazz" musicians.


                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgqWbfga7o


After looking at that, what's your attitude now.

As is usually the case, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.  Heads of jazz record labels tend to indeed be jazz lovers.  Why else would someone start a jazz record label?  Plenty of better and easier ways for entrepreneurs to make money.  I don't know if they love money more than the music, but I do know that to run a viable business of any kind one has to make money; otherwise, you don't help anyone.  

I always thought they just filled a niche that no one else was interested in filling.   After reading this wiki thing, I see I am right.  If other established labels had been willing to record Jazz, there may have never been a BN.  Of course all this was brought about due to 'social conditions' and 'race' music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Note_Records

The article says Lion was drafted in 1941 for two years.   That would mean he was discharged in the middle of the war.   WTF?

There no easier way to make money than having an entire market to yourself.

I wonder why we always think BN was run by Jazz lovers, but don't think DG was run by Classical lovers.   At least I never did.  

Of course they are all now part of faceless multinationals.

O-10:   Aficionados of the world, UNITE!!  You have nothing to lose but your LPs.

Cheers

From the very Wiki article you site:

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Lion first heard jazz as a young boy in Berlin. He settled in New York in 1937, and shortly after the first From Spirituals to Swing concert, recorded pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis in 1939 during a one-day session in a rented studio. The Blue Note label initially consisted of Lion and Max Margulis, a communist writer who funded the project. The label's first releases were traditional "hot" jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of "Summertime" by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies. Musicians were supplied with alcoholic refreshments, and recorded in the early hours of the morning after their evening's work in clubs and bars had finished. The label soon became known for treating musicians uncommonly well - setting up recording sessions at congenial times, and allowing the artists to be involved in all aspects of the record's production.

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Kindly explain to me how this goes counter to my contention that the founder Lion was a jazz lover.  Moreover, that, at least this particular label (BN), treated their musicians well.  So, not only does jazz need "saving" now, but it needed saving back then.  I get it 🙄