Or jazz players in general. Or jazz. Marketing, stupidity, racism, anti-intellectualism, whatever. But yeah, race is a fulcrum for a lot of this, directly or indirectly.

I remember when Tony Williams died unexpectedly. It was a big deal in Downbeat. And he presumably got a NYTimes obit. But it, sadly, wasn't a cultural moment.

If you ask random people on the street who's the greatest saxophonist of all time, a lot more people would say Kenny G than Charlie Parker.