MUSIC INDUSTRY: Don't Let Something as Wonderful as Jazz Slip Away

Regarding Terry Teachout's "Can Jazz Be Saved?The audience for America's great art form is withering away" (Leisure and Arts, Aug. 8): Miles Davis once said that "jazz is folk music"a music enjoyed by folks for entertainment, inspiration and even sometimes to provoke thought. It was Miles's music and overall persona that people found entertaining. {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} and {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} were once performing together in a ballroom in Harlem and Diz was overheard telling Bird tha...

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