>let explain to you why that is: jazz artists can afford to be
>"pure" w/their art because there's no market demand for jazz
>music, therefore, unlike r&B and HipHop artists, jazz artists
>can make music freely w/o label execs trying to micro manage
>their music output because jazz doesn't mean much if anything
>to their bottom line.

I guess I better go give that news to the many, many musicians who make a (good!) living playing jazz, and to the jazz-oriented labels like GRP and Verve that have managed to sustain themselves longer than most here today/gone tomorrow "urban" labels.

>And as far as independent artists, the fact that they're
>independent allows them to be 'free' sort of speak when it
>comes to their music LOL. To be a pure artist when you're
>D'angelo means a lot more when when you factor in the fact
>that he's on a major label who have demands and millions of
>dollars riding on his success (or failure).

When was the last time he released music on a major label, though?