What Will the Sound of Jazz Be in 2016?
As Ornette Coleman, one of 2015’s most notable departures from the jazz world, memorably argued, tomorrow is the question. If jazz came back in 2015, as some observers have suggested, where will it go in 2016? The New York City Winter Jazzfest, an annual January event around Greenwich Village, has typically served as a good lodestone for where the music is going in the year ahead. And if this year’s festival serves that purpose, the jazz world can look forward to year of vitality and wide diffusion.
