Blog: There Stands the Glass

I freely admit that I occasionally participate in the "whither jazz" discussions that careen around the internet like shots fired in an empty bank vault. The "absurd lack of an audience" is a frequently-employed tag at my jazz blog Plastic Sax . Instead of weighing in at this heated thread at NPR's A Blog Supreme , I'll use this album review as a meditation on jazz's declining popularity. I reviewed a concert headlined by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band last week. While poorly attended by the venue's standards, it [...]