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Hi Ken -- Nice piece highlighting some worthy musicians. As someone who has written about jazz for WSJ, Newsday, all the jazz rags and, yes, even Stereophile, I have often been critical of The New York Times and its approach to the music. And once Ben Ratliff went off the radar and Nate Chinen left the roost, I was really disappointed that they seemed to be abandoning jazz. But Giovanni Russonello, the paper's current point man on the beat, has done an incredible and ever-more expansive and inclusive job writing about musicians who are far, far from the Marsalis orbit. True, they don't do much with live reviews anymore, but the feature/spotlight coverage has really been a step up, as far as I;m concerned. If you haven't read the paper in awhile, I'd strongly suggest looking for Giovanni's byline. He's my favorite jazz writer for the paper since the legendary Robert Palmer. Cheers!