
Bob Geisler is rock pop songwriter based in Orlando Florida. Bob Geisler wrote 26 songs that were produced and recorded by Glen Reifsteck and and Sal Fazio at Shadow Bay Studios in Longwood, Florida. Bob Geisler plays acoustic and electric guitars, bass and sings all lead vocals on all of his compositions. Sal Fazio played all keyboads, pianos and synths on all track and Glen Reifsteck programmed all the drum tracks and played rhythm and lead guitars. Bob Geisler songwriting skills span across several styles; Country, Funk, Pop, and Rock. Bob Geisler performs locally around the Orlando Florida area. Sal Fazio is a piano teacher and plays in numerous bands as a sideman in Orlando.
Is Jazz Fading Away Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
The bad news came from the National
Endowment for the Arts' latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the fourth to be
conducted by the NEA (in participation with the U.S. Census Bureau) since 1982. These are the
findings that made jazz musicians sit up and take notice:
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In 2002, the year of the last survey, 10.8% of adult Americans attended at least
one jazz performance. In 2008, that figure fell to 7.8%.
- Not only is the audience for
jazz shrinking, but it's growing older-fast. The median age of adults in America who attended a
live jazz performance in 2008 was 46. In 1982 it was 29.
- Older people are also much
less likely to attend jazz performances today than they were a few years ago. The percentage of
Americans between the ages of 45 and 54 who attended a live jazz performance in 2008 was 9.8%.
In 2002, it was 13.9%. That's a 30% drop in attendance.
- Even among college-educated
adults, the audience for live jazz has shrunk significantly, to 14.9% in 2008 from 19.4% in 1982.
These numbers indicate that the audience for jazz in America is both aging and shrinking
at an alarming rate. What I find no less revealing, though, is that the median age of the jazz
audience is now comparable to the ages for attendees of live performances of classical music
(49 in 2008 vs. 40 in 1982), opera (48 in 2008 vs. 43 in 1982), nonmusical plays (47 in 2008 vs.
39 in 1982) and ballet (46 in 2008 vs. 37 in 1982). In 1982, by contrast, jazz fans were much
younger than their high-culture counterparts.
I suspect it means, among other things,
that the average American now sees jazz as a form of high art. Nor should this come as a surprise
to anyone, since most of the jazz musicians that I know feel pretty much the same way. They regard
themselves as artists, not entertainers, masters of a musical language that is comparable in
seriousness to classical music. . .
Jazz has changed greatly since the '30s, when Louis
Armstrong, one of the supreme musical geniuses of the 20th century, was also a pop star, a
gravel-voiced crooner who made movies with Bing Crosby and Mae West and whose records sold by
the truckload to fans who knew nothing about jazz except that Satchmo played and sang it. As late as the early '50s, jazz was still for the most part a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it. But by the '60s, it had evolved into a challenging concert music whose complexities repelled many of the same youngsters who were falling hard for rock and soul. . .
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