http://vancouverjazz.com/2010/06/icons-among-us-a-meditation.html The complete guide to jazz in Vancouver BC Sun, 06 May 2012 09:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://vancouverjazz.com/2010/06/icons-among-us-a-meditation.html#comment-56 Richard Sheehy Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:15:18 +0000 http://vancouverjazz.com/?p=764#comment-56 There's not much that I can add to Nou's excellent review, except to say that producers did a masterful job of distilling a vast amount of material to create a focused narrative for this theatrical version. Particularly impressive was the survey of the many diverse sub-genres considered "jazz" by their proponents, and their inevitable effect on the debate as to "what *is* jazz?" A real eye-opener. There’s not much that I can add to Nou’s excellent review, except to say that producers did a masterful job of distilling a vast amount of material to create a focused narrative for this theatrical version. Particularly impressive was the survey of the many diverse sub-genres considered “jazz” by their proponents, and their inevitable effect on the debate as to “what *is* jazz?” A real eye-opener.

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