MUSIC INDUSTRY: Reminders of the Future of Jazz

For those naysayers and/or moldy figs who say, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that jazz is dead, don't buy it. The music isn't even on life support, given the attention and interest it receives from music educators and their serious students at college, high school and lower levels. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington" competition each May draws perhaps the most fanfare. But it certainly holds no monopoly. Consider last weekend's Charles Mingus High School Competition at the Manhattan Schoo...

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