Reply #74: A lot of actors/musicians don't get mass coverage when they die [View All]

[Mike Daniels]

His complaints are disingenious at best given the recent coverage given over to Ray Charles passing away.

Jazz (outside of the smooth or easy jazz format) remains a niche format in terms of popular consumption at best and outside of the front men like Miles, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and others of their stature, I doubt the general public knows that much about the supporting players of the bands fronted by the big names of that era.

The name of Elvin Jones means nada to probably 98% of the public and I doubt a 3 page tribute is going to increase any significant interest in the man. The majority of people who would care about this probably are going to read about in the trade mags or periodicals like Rolling Stone.

Carlos needs to get a sense of perspective.