Music: Factory Jazz in the Globe

While I was away over the weekend, Bruce Ferrara's Factory Jazz Project got a nice writeup from Bill Ewing in the Globe. The Amesbury guitarist's every-other-Thursday scene outside the Essex Art Center in Lawrence is praised for the audience's "big ears" and Bruce's "adamant" stance that this is not another pop music scene or family-friendly summer fest, but a real chance for artists to do their thing. ''We don't live in an art culture; we live in a consumer culture," Bruce tells Ewing (which sounds terrifyingly like the intro to one of his morning rants over the N.Y. Times at the late, lamented Middle Street Foods, but never mind). ''What I want to do is let the musicians create something and put it out there without watering it down. To give people a chance to experience it and decide for themselves if it matters." You can check it out for yourself Thursday; details here.