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on the flip side, improvised instrumental music (which has relatively no market or fame) is kind of the opposite- the top dogs basically stay there their whole
by the_cat_kittles 2y ago
on the flip side, improvised instrumental music (which has relatively no market or fame) is kind of the opposite- the top dogs basically stay there their whole life. but thats in terms of status, not money, which is mosty nonexistent.
- autoexec 2y agoIf all you have is "status", but no one knows who you are and most people don't care either (no market or fame) that's a very small consolation.
- the_cat_kittles 2y agoi think the respect of your peers is one of the best rewards
- thefaux 2y agoYes, I am reading James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue which tells the biographical story of the main players on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It is almost shocking, even though I knew, how impoverished these musicians were even though they were widely acknowledged to be at the top of the art form. Miles did ok financially but most of his peers did not. And yet people still listen to Kind of Blue 70 years later (and hardly anyone listens to modern jazz).
- __mharrison__ 2y agoTop jam bands do quite well, but most are not played on the radio. Phish, Dave Matthews, Dead and Company. Up-and-comers Billy Strings and Goose appear to be following the pattern. But like many things content-wise, the outliers get the majority of the money. These are the outliers.