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Where is the jazz audience?

It seems like more jazz is being recorded and released these days than anytime in the last forty years. I assume that someone must be buying these releases but aside from a tiny handful of "big name" musicians IME the live audience usually seems to be twenty or thirty to maybe seventy people, the same as it has been for the last forty years. There is also a conspicuous lack of venues outside of America's three largest cities plus maybe three or four others. To make matters worse a huge chunk of those venues book primarily only the safest and often the blandest music. Is this simply an issue of lack of exposure? It seems that even the most abrasive and "difficult" rock forms can draw more people in more towns and have more venue options.
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Topic - Where is the jazz audience? - plantsman 05:34:54 03/21/11 (39)
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