The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
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The new, younger artists today are too insecure to be willing to face that kind of musical competition afforded by the jam session.Norman Granz
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
Norman Granz
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
Norman Granz
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
Norman Granz
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Norman Granz
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