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Chapter 18: Ten Great Cities for Jazz
Other cultural venues that feature jazz include the following:
� Philadelphia’s International House is center for arts around the world,
with an eclectic array of music including African, improvisational, and
jazz — sometimes played all together. Violinist Leroy Jenkins and saxophonist
Henry Threadgill are among those who have performed there.
Visit www.ihousephilly.org for more info.
� The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is grounded in classical music
but branches into jazz with prominent players like saxophonist Joe
Lovano. Log on to www.pcmsconcerts.org.
� Philadelphia Museum of Art (www.philamuseum.org) is a great place
to experience fine visual art along with occasional concerts by jazz
greats like Avishai Cohen.
National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate station WRTI-FM (90.1) combines jazz
and classical programming from its studios at Temple University, with several
hours of jazz hosted by real people every day. And while we’re talking about
Philadelphia culture and jazz, check out America’s leading lady of arts interviewers:
Terry Gross. She hosts her nationally syndicated public radio program
“Fresh Air” from WHYY-FM (91). She’s married to jazz critic Francis
Davis and often interviews jazz musicians.
My own fair city doesn’t rank among the top five American cities for jazz, but I
include it here out of loyalty and a love of the underdog, and to prove that great
jazz exists in most mid-size and larger American cities, if you search it out.
One recent winter, you could choose from the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in
La Jolla, vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake and pianist Bill Mays in Balboa Park
(our Central Park), the San Diego State University Jazz Ensemble featuring
recording artist Christopher Hollyday on saxophone, the San Francisco Jazz
Collective (vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and other big names) sharing a
bill with the University of California San Diego’s Jazz Ensemble, and the
Rebirth Brass Band at a club called Canes.
Dizzy’s provides excellent local and regional jazz most every night, and the
club is an all-ages venue just a short walk from dozens of restaurants in the
historical Gaslamp Quarter and the San Diego Padres’ new ballpark. Dizzy’s
has become a local institution, and owner Chuck Perrin is a product of the
Beat Generation who still records and performs spoken word. Perrin’s tastes
in jazz were formed in the ’50s and ’60s. A typical month of music includes
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