Hot Jazz in Cold Wars

By David Sax
· Sax is a freelance writer from Toronto. He contributes to publications such as the New Republic and Rolling Stone.
Field Notes · From the March 2006 magazine
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Recently, he tells me, there has been discussion in the Cuban jazz community of expanding the Jazz Plaza festival to a neutral country where American musicians can again lend their talents. Some lean toward the Dominican Republic, but many others have suggested Canada, where more and more of the island’s musicians are now going to play and record. Cuban music travelled a long way to artists like Jelly Roll, Benny, and Diz; today it must go further still.
Sax is a freelance writer from Toronto. He contributes to publications such as the NEw Republic and Rolling Stone.
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