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Jazz Legacies
Episode 2250
Published 2 days, 10 hours ago
Description
Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), talks about the latest cohort of the Mellon Foundation's (in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America) jazz legacies fellows, and the importance of the genre. Also in this segment, saxophonist Gary Bartz reflects on his long career in jazz.
Photo: An alto saxophone. (Credit: Rama via Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0)