on 3/18/03 2:10 PM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
There are actually quite a large number of grassroots jazz tabloids, from New York's All About Jazz to similar efforts from Vermont to Los Angeles. Those strike me as being far closer to zine culture than to mainstream press.
That's funny -- the look very mainstream to me, and their content is very mainstream to me. This month the cover (at least of the Philly edition) is me and Greg Osby, neither of whom is exactly Dez Cadena or Keith Morris.
But I also remember buying a Xeroxed Bay Area improv zine called Something Else about eight years ago... it even came with an exclusive cassette of folks like Crispell and Gino Robair. I think it's more widespread than we know, but perhaps it's not as prevalent in jazz as in rock.
The kids want to work for the rock music they're goin' for so much these days...
All I know is that when I was fresh out of college and back in Houston, I wanted to start such a zine myself, but lacked the manhours in which to do it. Story of my life.
you & me both, pal -- skip h http://www.skipheller.com