Mark Stryker says that the evolution of American entertainment has been a disaster for the one-vibrant jazz world. “It’s hard to think of a time other than our own in which jazz has been so marginalized; it no longer seems part of the cultural dialogue. The fabric that once supported jazz musicians, fans, the club scene and recording industry has been torn apart. The challenge facing jazz today is to repair the cloth, to create a new infrastructure, to weave a new fabric.”