Dave Douglas: 'A Call to Arts' on NPR/A Blog Supreme

Thursday August 20, 2009

(NPR) Dave Douglas is one of today’s most celebrated jazz trumpeters, composers and, well, bloggers. And from time to time, he’s also sharing some of his thoughts about music and technology with us. We’re calling it Jazz In The Digital Age.

We last heard from Dave when the Tiny Desk Concert of his newest band, Brass Ecstasy, was featured on YouTube’s Music Tuesday series and racked up 92,000+ views in a matter of days. Win. Lately, he’s been thinking about the good things that are happening in arts philanthropy these days. —Ed.

A Call To Arts

It’s good to see arts and especially jazz philanthropy back in business, thinking about what to fund and how best to fund it and not so much about how to punishing artists who use government money to smear their bodies in chocolate or worrying about just how in particular they plan to use that crucifix. There’s a new director at the National Endowment for the Arts named Rocco Landesman who is more interested in putting on shows; The Doris Duke Foundation and Mary Flagler Cary are out with innovative initiatives; and the alphabets — MTC, CMA, AMC, NYFA, NYSCA — are all looking at ways of giving jazz and related music a place at the table. All I can say is, Thank You. Finally. At long last, we can sit down and have a decent fight over real pieces of the pie.

Read the entire essay here

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