What you wrote about the NEA Jazz Masters is spot on and, I think, incidentally pretty close to what Gary Giddins would have written when he had a page a week in a healthy Village Voice. I think the NEA committee that decides these things is doing its best, but I suspect we'll see Kamasi Washington win one of these things before we see Kenny Washington win one. Which raises questions of definition.
What you wrote about the NEA Jazz Masters is spot on and, I think, incidentally pretty close to what Gary Giddins would have written when he had a page a week in a healthy Village Voice. I think the NEA committee that decides these things is doing its best, but I suspect we'll see Kamasi Washington win one of these things before we see Kenny Washington win one. Which raises questions of definition.
Nice review.
thanks Jane!