NYC Jazz in the 21st Century

From the early 1900s inception as "Dixieland" in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the mid-century boom as the "musician's music", to the later dilution of the canon, the loss of community, a century old art form, Jazz has completed a mesmerizing arc.

Entering the 21st century, binary codes interpret and fuse all music in a pastiche. Some say Jazz is dead. Others say another evolution has just begun. Maybe both statements are true: Jazz is only constant a cry for...
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From the early 1900s inception as "Dixieland" in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the mid-century boom as the "musician's music", to the later dilution of the canon, the loss of community, a century old art form, Jazz has completed a mesmerizing arc.

Entering the 21st century, binary codes interpret and fuse all music in a pastiche. Some say Jazz is dead. Others say another evolution has just begun. Maybe both statements are true: Jazz is only constant a cry for spontaneity and invention; it is at once ever changing an unchangeable.
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