Latest posts by Chris Roberts

First off: “Jazz” is a bad word. It’s not jazz’s fault — it’s ours. Jazz is America’s best gift to the world, our greatest cultural export—a prize we have managed to grant in spite of ourselves. But “jazz” as a descriptor, a blanket term, is just too broad and too all-inclusive, too vague to mean […]

“I mourned. I grieved. I raged. I felt fear and triumph while working through some of the trauma I set out to heal from. The state I so greatly wanted to experience, but that never arrived was optimism.” “I couldn’t answer my own question, if I had a responsibility as an artist to also express […]