BUILDING A HOUSE OF JAZZ

The Lincoln Center jazz program is establishing a place for itself among New York’s cultural institutions. But what about those who say that institutionalizing jazz is to kill it? Wynton Marsalis: Those who say that are “closet oppressors armed with a ‘fake mythology’—the kind of people who not only don’t play it, but don’t even like it. It’s like telling somebody who’s in a two-room house, ‘You’ve done OK in a two-room house—why y’all want to build a five-room house?’” – Metropolis