As usual, things are happening in jazz in Philadelphia, the town that produced John Coltrane,
That seems to be the way things are going, Mr. Wunsch. See this recent posting.I wanted to share a new site we JUST launched here at Painted Bride Art Center in Philly, that represents our own attempt to marry new media with the jazz compositional process, called Big Ears Philly. The site is a tool for John Hollenbeck and 12 Philly jazz musicians to communicate and refine ideas as they prepare to develop new work during their residency at Painted Bride. Each artist maintains a blog, can post video, and can share audio files of work in progress. It also is obviously designed to bring audiences into this process. So this is just a note to say check it out, and I've enjoyed your writing. We're really looking towards blogs as THE location for jazz journalism these days.