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Nate Chinen on jazz criticism and the trouble with defining music

By Leo Sidran | The Third Story
May 15, 2019
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In this podcast episode, jazz writer and critic Nate Chinen talks about his book Playing Changes, jazz criticism, displaced backbeats, the importance of live music, and the trouble with trying to define what music should and shouldn't be. This is a conversation I've waited a long time to have and it was absolutely worth the wait.

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