Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense

This is the kind of movie you will want to watch with a pen and paper handy so you can jot down the names of all the fascinating young musicians featured in it, then head to the store when it’s over to pick up their music. It’s more than proof that jazz music is a vibrant art form; it’s a call to all viewers to stop being sheep listening to whatever the music media is selling you and start thinking for yourselves about what makes music great.