If you search YouTube for fresh music videos from jazz bands, you will find very few of them. Why?

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Jazz is often improvisational, so it’s hard to plan and produce a music video around that. Plus, the genre of music itself doesn’t really lend itself to the sort of exciting visual experience accompaniment that other music genres do.

    Lastly, music videos are often used as promotion to push massive sales of streams/downloads/whatever. Jazz albums don’t really generate enough revenue to justify the cost of expensive music videos, and the audience isn’t really interested in them.