Good news just arrived in my in box: "JazzBoston Inc. today announced its official launch as a non-profit organization and the debut of its website, www.jazzboston.org. The 501(c)(3) organization, with representation from every corner of Boston’s diverse jazz community, will also bring a major new event to the city next year: Jazz Week, a celebration of jazz in all styles, which will be held in venues throughout the city from April 21 to April 29, 2007. The event is scheduled to coincide with the Smithsonian’s Jazz Appreciation Month and culminate on Duke Ellington’s birthday."
This is a terrific initiative that's much needed. A family jazz initiative and public school partnerships are also promised, to help connect a younger generation to the music. There's a lot of kids interested - I saw plenty of them at the Beantown Jazz Fest, and they weren't all from Berklee. Lots more to come on this, rest assured. I hope we'll be hearing about it for years and years.
Two tiny bitches about the Web site. One: I don't see a place on the site for BLOGS, ahem, unless they're from out of town - what's up with that? And two, there ought to be a way to click off the music for those of us who might already be listening to, oh, say Esperanza Spalding's new CD via our computer.
UPDATE/CORREX: There are music controls on the site, which for some reason didn't show up for me at home, but which are plain as day on the laptop.
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