white people are too good at making music, we need affirmative action in orchestras!
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Blacks tend to do better with jazz anyway. It fits the culture better. Jazz and classical tend to have different styles. Ask a classical pianist to play jazz or a jazz pianist to play classical and they won't want to. Very different styles, both are great and provide fantastic music.
If you want more blacks to take up instruments again, then how about bringing jazz back into the forefront of the black community instead of rap? Blacks paved the way for every major musical breakthrough in this country's history. They have a long and storied history in this country of playing their own instruments and making amazing music. Bringing rap to the forefront has taken that away to a large extent.
Then again, that was mainly black men, so who knows if they're even talking about them.
I teach jazz at the college level - have for over a decade. I have other jazz experience I cannot say without giving away too much. Got a kick out of your Faddis story - sounds like the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band days.
A race doesn't "do better with jazz." It depends on what music the person listens to.
Yes, a black family may have been brought up listening to jazz, but as you said, more common is rap/hip-hop. There is also more smooth jazz, Robert Glasper, Roy Hargrove, etc. But if they aren't really listening - and trying to integrate it....
I agree with your point about black musicians who influenced musical breakthroughs in the US. There is an interesting essay on this:
"Jazz and American Culture," Journal of America Folklore 103, no. 403 (1989): 6–22.