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An Experimental Music Scene Grows in Brooklyn

As hard as the cultural establishment, such as it is, tries to freeze jazz in a classical, bygone era, green shoots continue to fight their way forward into an exciting future. The SFJAZZ CENTER in San Francisco has acknowledged that the clubs of a previous time cannot nurture an entire city in today's economic times, so they've innovated an institutional approach that's almost the polar opposite of the stultifying methods of old line East Coast bodies. Musicians themselves are often the centers of business transformation too, such as iBeam in Brooklyn, and the new Public Records performance space in Brooklyn, both recently featured in the New York Times.

-Fred Seibert

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