Author: Ken Vermes

What do we mean by “save jazz”? Let’s get to the points. There is a crises in this music that appears in clearly distinct areas. First, the music may be losing the younger generation audience. When I speak with members of this group, including my own daughter, who has seen many jazz shows, they seem […]

Just the other day I had been walking down Haight Street in San Francisco when I bumped into one of our best local sax players. He had just invested in a new soprano saxophone. The discussion soon changed into one about how we both had not learned the clarinet in our youth. “It would take […]