Jazz in 2017: The Music Is Thriving, Though Support Is in Peril

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🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Kamasi Washington and some Los Angeles musicians are producing vital recordings, but N.E.A. funding is uncertain. A conversation about the state of jazz.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, your Central Avenue sounds of music news and journalism.
0:10.0	I'm your host John Caramonica. I've been trying to get you alone for more than sometime.
0:19.0	It's been hard, but we made it this fall.
0:26.0	Now we're face to face,
0:28.0	nothing's in our way.
0:31.0	Won't you, for the rest of my life.
0:38.0	You guys feeling the jazz, the pseudo jazz, the Neo Jazz, the Allmost jazz. That was Ronald Bruner Jr. The one night from his recent album called Triumph.
0:53.8	Bruner is one of a bunch of LA jazz musicians
0:57.2	or post-jazz musicians, depending how you frame it,
1:00.0	who have put out records recently.
1:01.8	And I'm joined this week by Giovanni Rousinello who covers
1:05.8	Jazz in The New York Times.
1:06.8	What's good, Geo?
1:07.8	What's going on?
1:08.8	Welcome to the New York Times, first time.
1:10.3	Yes, good to be here.
1:11.3	Long time listener.
1:12.3	Long time listener, first time presence. There's a lot of things popping in Los Angeles.
1:16.3	Across the map. You wrote a piece linking four of these records. We'll just say off top what they are.
1:23.5	We have Uprising by Miles Mosley.
1:25.9	We have Bruner's Triumph.
1:28.0	We have Thunder Cat, who is Bruner's Brother.
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