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Jazz/Not Jazz

Originally published on eJazzNews · · By Bill Kohlhaase

An opinion column by Bill Kohlhaase, headed "Contra Wynton," about the criticism Wynton Marsalis faced from some musicians at the time.

Kohlhaase set Marsalis's contributions, from the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and his education programs to his role in Ken Burns's Jazz, against the complaints of his critics, who blamed him for the institutionalization of jazz and a turn away from its improvised, constantly advancing tradition.

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