The longer jazz exists, the more it broadens and splinters into new directions—a situation that in recent decades has not only made it harder to define but also to determine its high-water marks. That’s one of the reasons I admire the wide net cast by Chris Anderson, who runs the Jazz Art Record Collective; a live-music series that enlists local musicians to interpret some of their favorite albums front to back.…
The longer jazz exists, the more it broadens and splinters into new directions—a situation that in recent decades has not only made it harder to define but also to determine its high-water marks. That’s one of the reasons I admire the wide net cast by Chris Anderson, who runs the Jazz Art Record Collective; a live-music series that enlists local musicians to interpret some of their favorite albums front to back.…