[Most performances, however, will not benefit from marquee billing.] A lot of people are playing for the door [receipts], ... which means they will end up playing for nothing. But the draw is that they have a forum where they can play whatever they want. There are no restrictions. -Jon Nelson

 

[Most performances, however, will not benefit from marquee billing.] A lot of people are playing for the door [receipts], ... which means they will end up playing for nothing. But the draw is that they have a forum where they can play whatever they want. There are no restrictions.


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[Most performances, however, will not benefit from marquee billing.] A lot of people are playing for the door [receipts], ... which means they will end up playing for nothing. But the draw is that they have a forum where they can play whatever they want. There are no restrictions.

Jon Nelson

We try to pair up things you would not likely see on the same program. We want to take categorization out of the whole presentation. If you want to have any kind of future at all, this is how you do it.

Jon Nelson

There's a need to provide more organs so those people have a reasonable expectation of getting transplanted in a reasonable amount of time.

Jon Nelson

It was one of those games that whoever hit shots first was going to get the game. We controlled the tempo and got them frustrated. But they had guys who don't normally step up step up and hit some shots.

Jon Nelson

[Though it does a good job of showing off some of the leading talents who work just outside the jazz mainstream, the festival is not particularly bound to the avant-garde canon.] We want to blur all the lines, ... It's easy for people to put things in a box. When events like this are institutional, it's the death of something that could have had some interesting possibilities.

Jon Nelson