April 16, 2013
Jazz can be a strange art. Many of its musicians bear the immense achievements of innovators and the indifference of mass audiences like a golden cross. Too often does it result in the paradoxical attitude of self-deprecation and esoteric elitism. Jazz in 2013 is both a threshold to innovation and a boundary to honor. Maybe it's always been this way, but the artists who speak the most truth find a way to reconcile the music's Janus personality. (Read more)