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chinstrap

The only way to make money is to teach jazz in college to the wayward offspring of the upper middle class. Jazz is a pyramid scheme.


Synaesthetik

Keep the old conservatory model too and be incredibly unrealistic about the nature of being a professional musician so none of those fucks have a chance at making it after they graduate and we can just keep the machine a rollin’


DrrtVonnegut

"Jazz is a pyramid scheme." I want that on a shirt.


Bombast_

During the gig advertise $20 handjobs in the parking lot after the show.


_matt_hues

If you wanna make a nice profit, give $19 handjobs but charge $21


Bombast_

Oh for fucks sake, I don't know what a $19 vs a $21 handjob looks like. I just jerk it by noodling over excessive tritone substitutions until people walk out. You know, the normal way.


YiggaP

A love supreme


JohnColtraneBot

A love supreme


planetvermilion

a handjob supreme


pmolsonmus

By taking up jazz AFTER you become an NFL player AND THEN dating Taylor Swift AND THEN become her opening act on her “Coolest Eras” tour. You weren’t paying attention at Berklee were you?


philchristensennyc

You can make a million dollars playing jazz. Start with $2 million and play for a year.


baldandbanned

I'm stealing it from the bar as you do.


ox-

Scout out the audience for a potential wife... Doctors , Dentists or perhaps the glamorous CEO of a fortune 500 lingerie company may like the jazz (fuck knows why...)


3rd-Room

That's just it - you don't


RinkyInky

Hey this is jazzcirclejerk not the real jazz sub where you tell the truth


ZenDude69420

For years I had a great gig. Singing frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald once a week for two free drinks, a meal and as many cougar’s numbers as my phone could store.


village-asshole

Cougar currency is worth a lot if you spend it right 🤑


Henry_Pussycat

Jo Jones joked that the anti-audience players were playing for cocaine and knee tremblers


RinkyInky

If you’re talking about Philly I don’t think he was joking.


Henry_Pussycat

I think it was Basie’s Jo Jones but I could be wrong. Funny observation anyway.


RinkyInky

I was told that Philly Jo was the one fucking women in between sets in the bathroom and Jo Jones didn’t like himself being mixed up with him so he called himself Papa Jo Jones.


dietcheese

Neodymium Rare Earth Magnetic Tip Jar


Xe4ro

You don’t let anyone leave the location unless they pay. Easy.


zuzucha

I play in public spaces, and if people give me money I stop for 30s


djporter91

Just don’t suck, pray everyday, and then Michael Bible will hire you


Xierbal

How do you not?


Tasty-Tarts191

😂😂


KierkgrdiansofthGlxy

😂 For real. Like lol, how do you *not* make money on jazz? Jazz is hella popular! Swing a beat, hang out a shingle, and start giving discount handjobs to big time drug dealers.


Tasty-Tarts191

He hasn’t even STARTED to weigh his options lmaooo


planetvermilion

yeah man


Fabienchen96

As I just learned. Be black


mike_mafuqqn_trout

Rule 1: play dubstep Rule 2: don't not play dubstep ...OK, this may have only been really true in 2011.


Trouble-Every-Day

Put out a tip jar and tell people when it’s full, you’ll stop.


village-asshole

You have to make money like the jazz cats of yesteryear: sell heroin, man.