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Can Jazz Be Saved?

“By the same token, jazz musicians who want to keep their own equally beautiful music alive and well have got to start thinking hard about how to pitch it to young listeners—not next month, not next week, but right now.”

- Terry Teachout | Wall Street Journal

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1. "One of the big things that caught my attention was after he moved to Nashville in the '60s, he and another Texan, Waylon Jennings, eventually told the Nashville people to go to hell, and they left," says Sample, who will join Nelson in performances of the "American Classic" material in Chicago on Sept. 27 and 28 for a PBS special to air in the fall. (Willie Nelson in Jazz Country, L.A. Times)
2. Readymade jazz mix in my Muxtape:
   • Induce
   • Miles
   • Ananda Shankar
   • Angelo Badalamenti
   • The Budos Band
   • Mulatu Astatqé
   • Nils Petter Molvær
   • Marcus Belgrave
   • Nostalgia 77 Octet
   • Craig Taborn
   • Masabumi Kikuchi Sextet w/ Sadao Watanabe Quartet
   • Teruo Nakamura
3. Consequently, we've not had universal health care for the common good. We have never enjoyed the benefit of universal higher education, because collectively we cannot agree that it is in the common good for all citizens to be equally free from ignorance. We pay the price of that at every turn … in the lack of nuance in the national character, in the childlike and clichéd thinking of our electorate, in our satisfaction with a deluge of technological toys instead of meaningful work and leisure, or intellectual and spiritual substance. (via Joe Bageant)
4. I've uploaded another Muxtape (finally). Mid-tempo jazz, funk, and soul. Listen here. Muxtape No.2: 1. Art Farmer - Moanin' - The Brass Sessions: Brass Shout! / The Aztec Suite 2. The Aquarians - Jungle Grass - Jungle Grass 3. Lonnie Liston Smith - Journey into Love - Loveland 4. Ju-Par Universal Orchestra - Flute Salad - Moods and Grooves 5. The Budos Band - Aynotchesh Yererfu - The Budos Band 6. Yamasuki - Aieaoa - Captain's Crate 7. Lalo Schifrin - King Kong - Towering Toccata 8. Gene Ammons - Jaggin' - Free Again 9. Lemmy "Special" Mabase - Kwela Blues - African Jazz n' Jive 10. Roy Ayers - It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind - Everybody Loves the Sunshine 11. The Ensemble Al-Salaam - Circles - The Sojourner 12. Nostalgia 77 Octet - Stars - Weapons of Jazz Destruction

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