- Tue Apr 30, 2019 5:50 pm
#64521
Hi oiloops,
Good question!
The bulk of your answer can be found in the second to last paragraph (and right above it). In that paragraph, the author discusses how and why Marsalis put so much emphasis on the past. He wanted to use the past to push the genre forward by building on the work of past masters. But, and here is where the irony comes in, by elevating past masters, Marsalis actually made it harder for the new jazz musicians to innovate. Record labels saw how popular the past musicians were and stopped putting out records by new artists. By trying to push the genre forward in a classical way, Marsalis ended up freezing the genre in it's tracks.
All of this can be found in the second to last paragraph.
Hope that helps!
Rachael