To the editors:
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Musicians have always wondered why the Reader has ignored the criticism of both live jazz and recorded jazz. Each week numerous theatre, performance, dance and graphic artists are reviewed within the back of the music listings, but live jazz and blues and even rock suffers. Perhaps music of this nature is considered like new Italian restaurants, a fad, a condition. Besides the Reader is free, and if something is free you cannot be critical of it. You must read it. Point blank.
Spike also gave us jazz musicians a dream. The jazz club in the film had great dressing rooms and sound system. The musicians wore designer clothes. In fact one of Denzel Washington’s shirts cost as much as most bands are paid to play on Saturday night at the Bop Shop! So Spike gave us a dream of a quiet orange glow club. And we did not have to see anyone die! And we saw a black wedding, and we saw a happy ending!
