Remember back when jazz was cool? Well, you probably don’t, unless you happen to be in your '60s or '70s. Miles, Thelonious, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins (still pumping it out), and countless others made jazz cool, but somewhere along the way it got lost, and it was replaced by genres like dancey post-punk. Luckily, there are young musicians like Parks, Christian Scott and Esperanza Spalding helping to snatch jazz out of the hands of your granddad and hand it down like a Werther’s Original. more ›