{"id":2156,"date":"2017-01-18T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2017-01-19T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:57:09","slug":"is-nyc-still-capitol-of-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2017\/01\/is-nyc-still-capitol-of-jazz.html","title":{"rendered":"Is NYC (still) capital of jazz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early January concurrence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/jazzconnect2014\/\">Jazz Connect conference<\/a>, the annual convention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apapnyc.apap365.org\/News\/Pages\/APAPNYC-post.aspx\">APAP <\/a>(Association of Performing Arts Presenters), <a href=\"http:\/\/globalfest.org\/\">Global Fest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterjazzfest.com\/\">Winter JazzFest<\/a> makes a good case for\u00c2\u00a0Manhattan being the capital of jazz-and-beyond.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-ancestors-by-Jati-Lindsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\"wp-image-2157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-ancestors-by-Jati-Lindsay.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-ancestors-by-Jati-Lindsay.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-ancestors-by-Jati-Lindsay-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-ancestors-by-Jati-Lindsay-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shabaka and the Ancestors, London-South African band breaking out via Winter JazzFest at (le) Poisson Rouge; photo by Jati Lindsay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s inarguably true that creative sound-organizing with improvisation and rhythm is world-wide, and our native version &#8212; jazz and its derivatives &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0thrives throughout\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0the US, even in places\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s overlooked. And the record biz centralized in NYC, which fed this music&#8217;s market segment from the &#8217;20s into the &#8217;00s, is a blip\u00c2\u00a0of its past. But still, New York City . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>The annual Jazz Connect conference <\/strong>ran\u00c2\u00a0Jan. 5 and 6, with some 1000 musicians, their managers, agents, labels, publicists, presenters, broadcasters and critics filling meeting rooms and even the chapel of St. Peter&#8217;s Church. Produced by the Jazz Forward Coalition (<strong>Peter Gordon<\/strong> of Carmel CA&#8217;s Thirsty-Ear Records, director) in partnership with JazzTimes (principally via\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Lee Mergner<\/strong>, publisher of the Braintree MA-based magazine and <a href=\"https:\/\/jazztimes.com\/\">website<\/a>) with special assistance from\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Don Lucoff<\/strong> of DLMedia (of suburban Philadelphia and the PDX Jazz Festival in Portland OR), Jazz Connect is the sole US get-together for jazz professionals\u00c2\u00a0who aren&#8217;t educators (they met the same weekend, this year in New Orleans, via the Jazz Education Network (JEN)).<\/p>\n<p>I must have schmoozed with half of those at Jazz Connect, including friends and associates from <strong>Albuquerque<\/strong> (Tom Guralnick of the Outpost), <strong>Austin<\/strong> (pianist Peggy Stern, splitting her time in Kingston NY), the <strong>Bay Area<\/strong> (promotions and public relations specialist Marshall Lamm), <strong>Baltimore<\/strong> (writer Geoff Himes, JJA board member Don Palmer), <strong>Boston <\/strong>(Berklee student and JazzBoston newsletter editor Grace-Mary Burega),\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Boulder<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0(Peter Poses, dj at KRFC), <strong>Columbia<\/strong> MO (Peter&#8217;s brother\u00c2\u00a0Jon Poses, of\u00c2\u00a0the We Always Swing jazz series), \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Honolulu<\/strong> (Stephanie Castillo, filmmaker, director of <em>Night Bird Song<\/em> about the late Thomas Chapin), <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong> (Zev Feldman of Resonance Records), <strong>New Haven<\/strong> (musician and writer Allen Lowe), <strong>Richmond VA<\/strong> (broadcaster Josh Jackson),\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Rochester NY<\/strong> (Derrick Lucas, Jazz90.1), <strong>Paris<\/strong> (journalist and radio show host Alex Dutilh), <strong>Pittsburgh<\/strong> (journalist Mike Shanley),\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Portland OR<\/strong> (Matt Fleeger of KMHD), <strong>Seattle<\/strong> (Earshot&#8217;s John Gilbreath), <strong>Tucson<\/strong> (Yvonne Ervin; the Charles Mingus Festival and Memorial Park in Nogales, AZ is among her many\u00c2\u00a0works), <strong>Washington DC <\/strong>(Rusty Hassan of WPFW<strong>,\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Willard &#8220;Open Sky Jazz&#8221; Jenkins, NEA jazz specialist Katja von Schuttenbach), <strong>Wilmington<\/strong> (writer Eugene Holley),\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Ypsilanti<\/strong> (WEMU&#8217;s Linda Yohn) &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; and of course many <strong>New Yorkers<\/strong> (journalist\/educator David Adler, producer Todd Barkan, singer E.J. Decker,\u00c2\u00a0Jim &#8220;JazzPromo Works&#8221; Eigo, Barney Fields of HighNote\/Savant Records, Albany\/Nippertown jazz journo J Hunter, baritone sax star Howard Johnson, Jeff Levenson of Half Note Records, Village Voice and JazzTimes writer Aidan Levy, Jason Olaine of Jazz at Lincoln Center, pianist Roberta Picket (hanging out with saxophonist Virginia Mayhew),\u00c2\u00a0Mark Ruffin of Sirius\/XM Radio, singer Kendra Shank, trumpeter-producer David Weiss, pianist-educator Eli Yamin, . . way too many to name) and fellow <strong>Chicagoans<\/strong> (saxophonist\/AACM chair Ernest Dawkins, Hot House presenter Marguerite Horberg,\u00c2\u00a0writer\/radio producer Neil Tesser) . . .<\/p>\n<p>Many attendees, after hours of\u00c2\u00a0concentrated schmoozing, went directly to play or hear music, at one of the couple dozen venues detailed in the admirably comprehensive performance calendar of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycjazzrecord.com\/\">The New York City Jazz Record<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2159\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2159\" class=\"wp-image-2159 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harlem party &#8212; Wayne Escoffery holding his tenor sax. Photo by Alain Biltereyst.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the Thursday night I went with fellow Jazz Journalists Association members <strong>Angelika Beener<\/strong> and <strong>Ted Panken<\/strong> to hear\u00c2\u00a0L.A.-based pianist-composer-arranger <strong>John Beasley<\/strong>&#8216;s star-studded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Presents-MONKestra-Vol-John-Beasley\/dp\/B01H8CSWIE\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Monk&#8217;estra<\/a> at Dizzy&#8217;s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center &#8212; beautifully detailed, original expositions of centennial celebrant <strong>Thelonious Monk<\/strong>&#8216;s indestructible melodies (chatted with heir\/drummer <strong>T.S. Monk<\/strong> there, as well as alto saxist Ted Nash &#8212; hear his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Presidential-Suite-Eight-Variations-Freedom\/dp\/B01GIJ8CH4\/\/?tag=howardmacom-20\"><em>Presidential Suite (Eight Variations on Freedom<\/em><\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzweek.com\/\"><em>Jazzweek<\/em><\/a> publisher <strong>Ed Trefzger<\/strong>)&#8211; then cabbed to the Harlem apartment of Azerbijian-born pianist-composer <strong>Amina Figarova<\/strong> and her husband flutist <strong>Bart Platteau<\/strong>, originally from Belgium for a party\/jam session that\u00c2\u00a0included tenor saxist <strong>Wayne Escoffery<\/strong>, pianist <strong>Bertha Hope<\/strong>, bassist <strong>Ark Ovrutski<\/strong>, guitarist <strong>Roni Ben-Hur<\/strong> and 15-year-old singer\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Alexis Morrast<\/strong> giving lustrous voice to &#8220;My Funny Valentine.&#8221; Talked at length to <strong>Jim Wadsworth<\/strong>, presenter at Cleveland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nighttowncleveland.com\/\">Nighttown<\/a>, and photographer <strong>Gulnara Khamatova<\/strong>, one of the photographers for Winter JazzFest.<\/p>\n<p>Friday Jan 6 was the first night of the WJF marathon, performances from dozens of new and emerging artists\/ensembles from 6 pm to 2 pm simultaneously in 13 downtown venues. The clubs and concert halls\u00c2\u00a0are no longer grouped all on or near Greenwich Village&#8217;s main drag Bleecker Street &#8212; they&#8217;re now dispersed as far east at <strong>NuBlu<\/strong> on Ave. C, as far south as <strong>Bowery Ballroom<\/strong> at the edge of Chinatown, and west to <strong>S.O.B.&#8217;s<\/strong> on 7th Avenue South. Getting everywhere might be possible by bike, scooter or Segway but I ping-ponged only from 13th Street, where buildings of the <strong>New School<\/strong> offered variously sized stages, to <strong>(le) Poisson Rouge<\/strong> and <strong>Subculture<\/strong> on Bleecker, 10 blocks down.<\/p>\n<p>My aim was to hear music not likely to be in Chicago soon, and I started with trombonist\/composer\/conductor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigsharris.com\/\">Craig Harris<\/a>&#8216; Breathe, which collected\u00c2\u00a0some 35 players to embody the JazzFest&#8217;s stated mission to\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;explicitly support social and racial justice by presenting socially engaged artist who have urgent and\u00c2\u00a0beautiful musical messages to share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2160\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2160\" class=\"wp-image-2160 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-6-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-6-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-6-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-6.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Alexis Morrast, photo by Alain Bilteryst<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Harris did this in a suite-like structure by featuring soloists &#8211; first up, Zusaan Kali Fasteau on ney &#8212; and spontaneously conjured\u00c2\u00a0backdrops, sometimes drawing from his established compositions (the finale has been recorded as &#8220;Lovejoy&#8221;). Individualistic expression was implicit in this plan, a diversity of personal statements that did not detract from overall unity of purpose. Closeup portraits\u00c2\u00a0projected behind the ensemble emphasized the humanness of those imperiled by racial discrimination &#8212; which is everyone.<\/p>\n<p>On the advice of publicist Matt Merewitz, I hurried to Subculture for trombonist <a href=\"http:\/\/jacobgarchik.com\/?page_id=457\">Jacob Garchik&#8217;s Ye Olde<\/a>, with guitarists Mary Halvorson, Ava Mendoza and Jonathan Goldberger, plus drummer Vinnie Sperrazza. Garchik has earned his reputation as a skilled and witty\u00c2\u00a0composer-arranger. In this very loud setting, he outlined minimalisticly short riffs familiar from rock\/r&amp;b\/pop classics, freeing the guitars to rampage wall-of-sound style. Mendoza is a find, and Ye Olde, which seeems\u00c2\u00a0highly tourable, may\u00c2\u00a0appeal to audiences that aren&#8217;t used to or interested in &#8220;jazz&#8221; per se. Maybe even for some who are. I stayed for a tune by singer Somi, accompanied by a quartet fronted by guitarist Liberty Ellman &#8212; also not for me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2161\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Craig20Harris20BREATHE20Gulnara20Hamatova204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2161\" class=\"wp-image-2161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Craig20Harris20BREATHE20Gulnara20Hamatova204.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Craig20Harris20BREATHE20Gulnara20Hamatova204.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Craig20Harris20BREATHE20Gulnara20Hamatova204-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Craig20Harris20BREATHE20Gulnara20Hamatova204-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Harris conducts Breathe; photo by Gulnara Khamatova<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in New School land, I caught trumpeter Paul Smoker with pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uricaine.com\/\">Uri Caine<\/a>, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Clarence Penn reeling a far abstraction back into its basis in the standard &#8220;All the Things You Are,&#8221; and then a highlight: Chicago drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikereed-music.com\/flesh-bone\">Mike Reed&#8217;s Flesh and Bone<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0septet, with wild spokenwordsman Marvin Tate, alto saxophonist Greg Ward, bass clarinetist Jason Stein, cornetist Ben Lamar Gay, tenor saxist Tim Haldeman and bassist Jason Roebke showing how high energy blowing can be framed by riffs and rhythms for fun in balance with frenzy. Hot stuff &#8212; look for\u00c2\u00a0Flesh and Bone&#8217;s album in March-April. Nightcap was Arturo O&#8217;Farrill&#8217;s quintet with saxophonist Roy Nathanson, new-to-me trumpeter Billy Mintz, bassist Brad Jones giving a lot of juice to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monks-Music-Thelonious-Monk-Septet\/dp\/B004810KD4\/\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Monk music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2158\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-by-jati-lindsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2158\" class=\"wp-image-2158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-by-jati-lindsay.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-by-jati-lindsay.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-by-jati-lindsay-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shabaka-by-jati-lindsay-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shabaka Hutchings at (le) Poisson Rouge, photo by Jati Lindsay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Saturday began at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmrecords.com\/home\">ECM Records<\/a>&#8216; stage, with bassist <strong>Michael Formanek&#8217;s quartet<\/strong> of alto saxophonist Tim Berne, pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Their interactions struck me as densely detailed, kinetic and self-referential. Hastening through slush to (le) Poisson Rouge, I caught<strong> Shabaka &amp; The Ancestors,<\/strong> based in London, rooted in South Africa, and poised to emerge from their North American debut opening a sold-out show for Pharoah Sanders as next to enjoy the new audience popularity of, say, Kamasi Washington. Tenor saxist Shabaka Hutchings has a big yet essentially easy-going affect, matched and poked by altoist Thunzi Mvubu, with Siyabonga Mthembu providing vocals, often wordless. There was an appealing aspect of chant to their tunes, which flowed from calm to intensity and back; rhythm by bassist Ariel Zomonsky and drummer Tumi Mogorosi was strongly African in tone &#8212; authentically so, never outlandish. Subsequently I&#8217;ve listened to they album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wisdom-Elders-feat-Shabaka-Hutchings\/dp\/B01IRTUKDC\/?tag=howardmacom-20\"><em>Wisdom of Elders<\/em><\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0distinguished by warm, swinging soulfulness, the addition of a trumpeter and a fine keyboardist Nduduzo Makhathini, and spare use\u00c2\u00a0of electronic effects.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;d written a DownBeat record review of Cuban pianist <strong>Harold Lopez-Nussa<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/El-Viaje-Harold-L\u00c3\u00b3pez-Nussa\/dp\/B01EP0NV1U\/?tag=howardmacom-20\"><em>El Viaje <\/em><\/a>and was<em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>only six snowy blocks from Subculture,<em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>I went\u00c2\u00a0to hear him live. His trio had\u00c2\u00a0his brother Ruy Lopez-Nussa on drums and electric bassist Julio Cesar Gonzalez &#8212; &#8220;Lopez-Nussa always has the best bassists,&#8221; connoisseur of Cuban culture\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Ned Sublette<\/strong> remarked before they went on, and by reference\u00c2\u00a0to Gonzalez, he&#8217;s right. The three were spirited, but their\u00c2\u00a0material seemed anodyne &#8212; a reaction which tells me\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve heard enough music. And having spoken in\u00c2\u00a0passing with folks including percussionist Adam Rudolph, drummer Hamid Drake, guitarist Kenny Wessel, Kent Devereaux (ex-Cornish Institute, now president of New Hampshire Institute\u00c2\u00a0of Art), Seattle music journalist Paul deBarros, writer Bill Milkowski, composer-orchestra leader Darcy James Argue, ECM publicist Tina Pelikan, storyteller Mitch Myers, former film producer Bill Horberg (now working with Karl Berger&#8217;s Creative Music Studio), photographer Alan Nahagian, Tom Greenland (author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jazzingnyc\"><em>Jazzing: New York City&#8217;s Unseen Scene<\/em><\/a>) and Vancouver Coastal Jazz festival&#8217;s Rainbow Robert, among others, I was exhausted so\u00c2\u00a0called it quits early, missing much. Didn&#8217;t even try Sunday for <strong>Globalfest<\/strong>, the showcase of international acts eager to tour our country, at Webster Hall. By then I was eager to fly home.<\/p>\n<p>The capital is, after all, where people come together\u00c2\u00a0for business. It&#8217;s not necessary to live there. I lived in NYC for more than 30 years, and it&#8217;s fun to return but I don&#8217;t miss being\u00c2\u00a0there daily now. Is it the capital? Despite its considerable challenges &#8212; costs of travel, accommodation, transportation, meals, at the very least &#8212; \u00c2\u00a0no other place\u00c2\u00a0seems so hospitable for the gathering of jazz people. Yet we are everywhere, and it&#8217;s vital we listen to what surrounds us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early January concurrence of the Jazz Connect conference, the annual convention of APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters), Global Fest and Winter JazzFest makes a good case for\u00c2\u00a0Manhattan being the capital of jazz-and-beyond. 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