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The Rolling Estonian: Is Jazz Dead?


Dimly-lit clubs adorned with rich, red velvet drapes, ingrained with the smell of cigars and pomade, once housed Miles Davis and Duke Ellington's vivacious spirits.

But today, it’s a different story. Modern pop culture has locked jazz's relevance behind closed doors and swallowed the keys. It's become antiquated and unreachable in its true form; it exists in the collective imagination of younger generations as a reminder of the distant past. Some even say that jazz is dead.
Source: jazz.ee

But is this truly the case? Should jazz musicians and critics mourn the loss of the once thriving, exceptionally complex genre?

(Read more: Estonian Life No. 29 2022 paber- and PDF/digi)

Written by Natalie Jenkins 


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