“Does Jazz need saving?” So asked a CBC interviewer a few years ago of Quincy Jones, the composer, musician and bandleader who died this week. His answer gets at the American cultural imprint still admired by the rest of the world. And we offer music from Blue Note recording artist South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini as a coda.
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