Jazz was in a strange place in the 1980s. I remember being fresh out of college and working my first job in New York. There were plenty of clubs in town, but other than the big ones where legends performed, the scene was fairly run down and mighty thin on young people in the audience. The excitement of fusion in the 1970s had led to synthpop and funk in…
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