Jim Beebe

Jim Beebe's Chicago Jazz: Saturday Night Function

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

For as long as there has been jazz there’s been the myth of its demise. At various points in the long and winding history of its evolution detractors and even its devotees have waxed authoritatively about the so-called “Death of Jazz.” Prognosticated causes have run a wide gamut ranging from the birth of new styles to the select innovations of certain unsavory individuals. One truism remains when all the dust clouds of rhetoric settle, jazz survives.

When the pair of ...