By: Fleurine

Fleurine — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:28:21 +0000

PS : Thank you Nicky Schire for having me in your column!
Thank you London Jazz News Especially Sebastian, and Dan Bergsagel for the cool review of my album. Brazilian Dream.
It is great to raise this awareness, for mothers in jazz .( or parents in jazz doing the heavy lifting at home) I wanted to add an important point ,( if you’ve read the above ). We should also make a case for not deeming a release “old” so quickly; here is what is extremely weird in Jazz: People write reviews about records that were released 60 years ago but if you made a record that you basically barely had time to tour and show the world – because you are keeping all these balls up in the air, and are only able to perform locally or regionally yet your record is deemed ‘old’ in a year and in order to be written about in the press or get club or festival exposure you need to make a new album. This is ridiculous, as barely anyone has heard your “old'” album. Albums should be toured and reviewed based on whether they had exposure in touring or press in a territory , NOT based on THE DATE they were recorded, otherwise there is no way Mothers in Jazz can ever make their mark. The music should reach the audience! Not propelled by make- make -make and make it more more recent ..it does not enhance the quality either to put artists under such pressure.
E.G I have never toured Brazilian Dream in the UK, as such , aside from one review in LJN it is ‘new” to the UK and in principle my band could bring brandnew music to the UK- but according to the ‘rules’ I will never be invited regardless , unless I make a new album, you see how warped that logic is? I will not rest my case until I raise more awareness for all the other talented mothers in music out there 🙂

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