Can't wait to welcome these two new members from Hoffman who say such nice things about us:
"I realize it's probably on a bit of a decline and its best years were 20 years ago"
and:
"I can't say I miss seeing certain users act like complete asses. I think what got me to stop visiting for a while was when a critic there who lived in the poshest and wealthiest suburb in the Chicagoland area actually had the nerve to blast certain jazz artists for modeling (and presumably making deals with) fashion designers, as if they're not allowed to have too much success or comfort. Combined with the racial disparity between him and those he was trashing, it just made his garbage all the more off-putting."
"When heroin hit, jazz’s day was already beginning to fade."
"Jazz aficionados constitute a left-leaning community and always have. Thus, the literature tends to treat the jazz-heroin epidemic mainly as a story of racism..."
"The 1950s were when jazz truly lost its black audience."
City Journal is published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Thanks for the heads up, Ken. To be released on Sept. 6, available in CD, vinyl and download formats on Bandcamp. Coincidently, Sept. 6 also marks the return of Bandcamp Friday!