Cutting Edge Jazz: Eurotrash or Eurosmash?

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Jazz may be America's quintessential music but you have to go to European countries like the Netherlands, Poland or Sweden to find the more cutting-edge sounds. Today, a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on who’s got the more vibrant jazz scene: Europe or the U.S. Also: one example of vanguard jazz on American shores is Fieldwork, a group comprised of three rising young players: pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey.

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