Won’t get fooled again
I’m excited about the return of live music to New York City. I’ve attended several classical concerts in the last few weeks, and in a week or so, I’ll take in a show at the City Winery: Suzanne Vega. I haven’t yet made it back to New York’s amazing jazz clubs—the Vanguard, the Blue Note, Smalls—but I look forward to doing so soon, especially to dropping in on my jazz local, Smoke,1 when it reopens in a few weeks in new, larger digs. What I’m most excited about, though, is the resurgence of recorded music. It has been almost a quarter-century since the internet almost took down the recorded-music industry. For a thorough account, read Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention,2 but here’s the story…
