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Here’s the problem with jazz these days: For everyone save true aficionados, it’s too damn hard. Hard to understand. Hard to appreciate. Hard to love. Hell, it’s even hard to find a good place to hear jazz live (at least, if you don’t live near Minneapolis’s Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant or St. Paul’s Artists’ Quarter).
Yee-ouch.
Putz recommends an upcoming show at Orchestra Hall called "DownBeat's Rising Stars," which I plan to see; I expect it will be a highlight of the summer. But he does it in a back-handed way:
This summer, however, the people who put on the jazz series at Orchestra Hall have done something scientists once believed impossible: They’ve made jazz easy.... Indeed, the only way it would be any easier to see great jazz would be to move next door to the Marsalis family.
MnMO is a major lifestyle/culture/arts magazine in the upper Midwest. It has a long relationship with Minnesota Public Radio. MPR has a Saturday night jazz program, "The Jazz Connection," hosted by Maryann Sullivan, who emails a weekly calendar of all kinds of jazz events happening in and around the Twin Cities.
I've sent a letter to Mr. Putz, inviting him to be my guest at a jazz event somewhere besides the Dakota, the Artists' Quarter, and Orchestra Hall.
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