Maybe it’s different around the world but where I live it is EXCLUSIVELY the purview of yuppie rich kids who go to fancy music schools. There is not a non-white person in sight. It’s also completely male dominated and most of those males are completely terrible with women (based on stories I’ve heard from femmes in that scene).
Like yeh they’re talented musicians but they’re insufferable and it’s classist and sexist and just gives me the ick big time. They colonised jazz folks.
I’m surprised how jazz is treated academically. Original jazz was just “These are the instruments we have and if we have a singer, they’ll sing whatever they know.” You’d think modern jazz would be the same where people just play whatever using whatever.
Too Many Zoos isn’t bad if you wanna hear some more modern jazz. Their drummer is black.