1) For a very quick fun read – warning it may raise your temperature – try this from Tabatha Southey of the Toronto Globe and Mail who is fed up of people telling her she is obliged to like jazz.
Summary: “I do not like it at a fest. I do not like it as a test. I do not like jazz, boys. Deal with it.”
Comment: It’ll happen. When you least expect it.
2) For something longer and a LOT more meaty about the state of funding…. try the correspondence between Nate Chinen and Ronan Guilfoyle on Chinen’s the gig blog
3) Then there’s Terry Teachout wrote a “Can Jazz Be Saved?” article in the Wall Street Journal.
4) Peter Hum , a really knowledgeable journalist for the Ottawa Citizen wrote an entertaining piece about reavhing younger audiences.
5) Jason Parker, a professional trumpet player from Seattle responded to (3) and (4), under the heading Jazz: A Museum Piece or a Living, Breathing Artform? It’s Up to Us!
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Thanks for referencing my blog in the deluge! I agree with all three of your responses and will only add that I think it's great that all of these discussions are going on. I can only help to further the cause of this great music we all love so deeply.
Keep up the great work!
Peter Hum's blog from Ottawa has a good dissection of the issues in his post “Wasted on the Young III”
http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/jazzblog/archive/2009/08/10/wasted-on-the-young-iii.aspx