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Jazz is constantly on the move – busy with its history while also restlessly searching for new grass. In recent years in New York, this has meant literally looking at new kinds of spaces – apartments, nightclubs and so on – far from the mainstream of the jazz club.
Although this phenomenon is of the moment, it is in fact part of a long history of tension in the genre over where the music is most at home, and likely to grow. Some artists see traditional, favored sacred sites. Others actively reject those rooms. And still others try to inject outsider frisson into traditional spaces.
On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about the places where jazz has historically found a home, and those to which it washes out; the musicians who actively challenge old hierarchies; and the career of Meghan Stabile, the forward-thinking jazz promoter who died at 39 this month.
Guests:
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Giovanni Russonello, who covers jazz for The New York Times
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Nate Chinen, editorial director at WBGO and author of “Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century”
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