Chris Rich at Brilliant Corners hails the left-of-center Vision Festival and revels in the collapse of Jazz Times, JVC Jazz Festival, IAJE, lamenting “the Middle Mind mediocrity of NPR fern bar jazz.” To me, this sort of self-righteous, us-versus-them, marginalized-and-proud-of-it blather is as suffocating as any hegemonic corporate jazz I’ve come across. I mean, NPR has stepped up its jazz activity and teamed with WBGO to broadcast the likes of David Sanchez and Edward Simon and Bill McHenry from the Village Vanguard. And all Brilliant Corners can do is throw rotten tomatoes? Get real.
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