When The National Endowment for the Arts study on Public Participation in the Arts came out a few weeks ago, the survey's bad news about the size of the jazz audience caused ripples of concern. It showed that over a six-year period, the number of Americans attending jazz events dropped to a low of … [Read more...]
Archives for August 10, 2009
Other Places: Newport Report
The Boston Globe's Steve Greenlee reports from the resuscitated Newport Jazz Festival that he found the weekend's best music in the festival's outlying precincts. Hiromi (she goes by her first name) started picking out a pretty stride version of "I Got Rhythm,'' but it erupted … [Read more...]