Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
A "legendary" Chicago jazz "landmark" closes, and Al Reut mourns (albeit superficially; news hacks' tastes are more akin to Josh "ER" Tyrangiel's). To be sure, jazz needs no help in interring itself, and the giants who've undoubtedly graced this landmark for ages are proof it could have closed years ago, and no one outside the "jazz community" would have noticed.
Indeed, when "a Chicago-based avant-garde jazz musician and winner of a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship 'genius' award fears what the scene would be like without it", we know. We KNOW. It would be EXACTLY the same as before.
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