WHY IS IT NOT POPULAR

NOWADAYS?
Pure jazz and pop music
• Pop music is mainstream music, which means music that is acceptable to the public... In China, jazz is
not popular music.

• There are two kinds of jazz in today's music: pure jazz and popular music with jazz elements.For pure
jazz: if it is in China, it has never been popular, even now it is still a small number of people. It is not
clear whether foreign music is popular or not, but jazz education abroad has become the foundation of
music education. High school and college student bands are everywhere.Popular music with jazz
elements, this is not called jazz. There is jazz in almost every style of music.

• Pop music is a big part of it And jazz has a certain specializationNot everyone can appreciate it. This
limits the number of people who appreciate it.
Different cultures, different environments
• After all, it is the music that comes from abroad. We don't have this kind of environment. There are
cultural differences. And for a long time, we didn't have a ballroom for the development of jazz, and the
folk didn't support individual musicians. Then it opened and was hit by pop music. Even at present, there
is little jazz in China, and there are few singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan who sing jazz.
Finally, I want to say something
• Jazz is breaking into all kinds of music, whether it is pop music, some electronic music, or even some so-
called Chinese music, it is more or less using some jazz concepts or practices. Jazz is not just a tree, it is
a soil that can nourish other forms of music.