August 2012

“Ralston Crawford and Jazz” headlines an exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park that considers the relationship between music, photography, painting, drawing and film as they intersect in Crawford’s work done in the Crescent City.

It’s been 45 years since trumpeter Lester Bowie, in the introduction to his track “Jazz Death?” , answered the rhetorical question, “Isn’t jazz, as we know it, dead yet?” with the knowing rejoinder, “Well, that all depends on what you know.” Bowie might well have been speaking of the current Dallas jazz scene, which is diverse enough to include … (more)