The balance between cultural integrity and commercial reality is a challenge that faces every creative business.
In the 1990s, as the radio station Jazz FM struggled to find an audience, it tried to broaden its commercial appeal. But the jazzy pop hits it played were against the terms of its specialist broadcasting licence. The station’s defence was that jazz should be best defined as “anything with a trumpet in it.” The radio regulator wasn’t convinced…
In this edition of Collide, we explore how jazz itself can be the way in to solving the creative/business conundrum.
And we discuss the blessing and curse of parenthood, from two very different angles.
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Jonathan Rhodes
Co-Director, Linney Create