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The Jazz Session #123: Willard Jenkins

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Willard Jenkins
Willard Jenkins is a jazz broadcaster and blogger, and a consultant to jazz artists and festivals. Jenkins blog, The Independent Ear is a constant source of news and views about the jazz world. In this interview, Jenkins talks about the diminishing influence of jazz in peoples home record collections and thus in the lives of their children; why jazz is no longer an integral part of the black community experience; and that jazz isn't dead, but it does need to work on audience development.

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