“Over the past 25-30 years, there’s been an assumption that the condition of a downtown jazz/new music venue’s needing to be subsidized by benefits was an abnormal condition, a special situation necessitated by a particular emergency, after which the venue would return to its normal functioning, either as a market entity (Knitting Factory, Tonic, etc) or, in a few cases like The Kitchen and Roulette, as institutions funded by public and private foundations. But a sea change has taken place in the relation of these clubs to the market with few really acknowledging it.”