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Peter Gordon wrote on April 17, 2012Well stated, Gerard and Brandon. Jazz’s longevity as a musical genre often belies the fact that it lives just as much in the present as it does in the past. Formal settings beget formal thinking, but fresh venues, as you’re suggesting, encourages a rethink of the jazz proposition. And we can expand our audience, if we switch up ways to discover our music, breaking down preconceptions of our art form. Presenters, arts councils, entrepreneurs, please take notice. Let’s pop the cork and curate jazz in innovative settings.
