Hidden Talents
The economy, which hit the music industry hard, has been especially brutal on jazz. Labels that in the 1990s were helping to aid something of a jazz renaissance–Columbia, Atlantic, BMG and Verve–have either folded or largely curtailed their jazz production and left great young talents of 10 years ago, like James Carter, Cyrus Cheshnut, Mark Turner, Nicholas Payton and Christian McBride, without a regular recording venue. Not that this is completely a bad thing....