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Apr 11, 2011

Not So Black And White In Brooklyn : A Blog Supreme : NPR

Not So Black And White In Brooklyn : A Blog Supreme : NPR

Howard Mandel's latest column in City Arts, a New York City publication, muses on how jazz audiences, and sometimes jazz bands, sometimes still self-segregate on so-called racial lines. He points out two intriguing, concurrent phenomena.

Two jazz festivals overtly carrying the banner for the borough of Brooklyn recently launched: the Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival, and the ongoing Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival.