Hello "POP-JAZZ", Bye Bye "CABARET"
Hello "POP-JAZZ", Bye Bye "CABARET"
#0Hello "POP-JAZZ", Bye Bye "CABARET"
Posted: 9/30/06 at 3:18pm
Have been meaning to post this link to David Finkle's article on the BACK STAGE Blog for a bit.
I think serious community performers may well decide on a career description "label change" from cabaret to "jazz/pop" or "pop/jazz" since there seems to be no respect for the term "cabaret" in the larger public, perhaps w/good reason (especially since no trade org. is lobbying on behalf of the "cabaret" community).
As Finkle writes:
"If I remember correctly, they’ve been content in the past to label themselves cabaret entertainers, but they’ve now taken to promoting themselves as pop/jazz artists. I can’t say I blame them. On the contrary, I applaud them for what I assume their reason to be. They [Comstock & Fasano and others including Ann Hampton Callaway] understand that today is no time to be known strictly as a cabaret artist. Sad but true. Thanks in large part to the disrespect with which cabaret is regarded by the larger public--or those members of the larger public even aware that such a thing as cabaret exists–the very act of describing oneself as cabaret-based invites career suicide. Or if not suicide, stagnation.
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Do you want bookings outside of a small number of rooms in four or five cosmopolitan towns? Want to get patrons unfamiliar with your name to a club or to purchase the CD you produced with your own hard-earned dollars? Want to break into the big time? Or just the bigger time? Then you better face the fact that you’re well advised not to use the word 'cabaret' in your promotional material or in your liner notes."
Pls click on the link for the full article.
Milla
Cabaret Or Jazz-Pop?
Updated On: 9/30/06 at 03:18 PM
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