TT: Can jazz be saved?

Next to nothing has been written in the print media about “Arts Participation 2008: Highlights from a National Survey,” a recent study conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts which shows, among other alarming things, that the median age of the audience for live jazz performances in America skyrocketed from twenty-nine in 1982 to forty-six in 2008. This is, to put it mildly, very bad news for jazz musicians, and I’ve taken a closer look at what it might mean in my “Sightings” column for Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.
Is jazz dying of old age? If so, is its demise inevitable–or can it be reversed? Pick up a copy of tomorrow’s Journal and see what I have to say.
UPDATE: Read the whole thing here.