Three writers weigh in with the (murky) facts and (qualified) opinions.

CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF JAZZ

by BRUCE BOYD RAEBURN, PH.D.

Curator, Hogan Jazz Archive.

There is a saying in Academia that the reason scholarly debates so often turn rancorous is because the stakes are so small. The amount of energy that has gone into challenges to the selection of 1995 as the “centennial” year of jazz...