U-M Jazz Showcase

Academia after dark at the Ark

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 4/1/2007

In a little over a century, jazz has traveled from the cathouses of Storyville to concert halls and universities, with some colorful episodes en route. The academic environment is safer, healthier, and more dignified, but sometimes the results are somewhat predictable and the recipes lack a pinch or more of cayenne. It must also be said that contemporary jazz

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