Jazz Foundation Moves Gigs to the Future

Both its continuing programs and its burgeoning innovations provide incentives to local and regional jazz support groups to go farther and also can be of use to jazz educators. At one of its annual "A Great Day in Harlem" concerts at the Apollo Theater, Tad Hendrickson told of hearing this from that evening's musical director, Steven Bernstein: "I was talking to someone at the JFA and happened to mention a legendary jazz musician - who does not live in NYC, but is going through some financial problems - and he said [The Jazz Foundation] were already on it.