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• [1] MikeL from New York September 11, 2008 - 02:44PM

  While I definitely think it's wrong for any artist who has been sampled to not receive any royalties form Hip Hop / Rap songs using their music, it was through these rappers and their use of the samples that I was introduced many many wonderful artists of not just the jazz world but also funk and soul artists, that I may never have been exposed to otherwise.

  
  
• [2] Patricia from nyc September 11, 2008 - 02:56PM

  Great to hear from Ahmad Jamal! Fantastic

  
  
• [3] ben perowsky from brooklyn September 11, 2008 - 02:59PM

  john, while i love jamal's music and have incredible respect for his input, it's too bad he didn't answer your question about why this music has lost it's place in the cultural landscape. perhaps he took that personal. i believe you were talking about why in the 40's jazz was considered popular music and why slowly over the last 50 years it's lost that place...

  but don't you think that if duke or louis strapped on guitars, grew their hair long in the late sixties along with the trend or started dj-ing in the 80's etc etc that more kids would be buying this music? but that would not have been jazz right?

  the problem seems to be that whenever people try to be "true" to an artform it turns into a museum piece. nothing against museums, but artist grants are a lot different than gold records.

  
  
• [4] PSG from New York September 11, 2008 - 05:09PM

  Uh, forgive my ignorance but, what does 9/11 have to do with Ahmad Jamal's music? And why does he have to answer for this day because he happens to be Muslim? The fact that you struggled and contorted yourself in asking this question should have clued you in that it was offensive and inappropriate. Next Columbus Day, invite an Italian artist and casually mention at the end of the interview how Columbus caused the genocide of the native Americans in the Caribbean. Oh, Oh, let's ask a Jewish artist, on Good Friday, how he/she feels about the alleged complicity of the Jewish Sanhedrin in the death of Jesus Christ!