Help Search and Restore Document the New Jazz Scene

Based in New York City, Search and Restore is a website and a production company, whose concerts and promotions are dedicated to proving that jazz is a current and powerful art form that resonates among young people, and not merely a detached tradition that demands respect based on historical significance alone.

Search and Restore helped program the 2010 Winter Jazz Fest, and was behind the recent Undead JazzFest. By regularly staging acts such as Kneebody, Vijay Iyer, Andrew D'Angelo, the Claudia Quintet, and pretty much anyone else who is making forward-looking jazz at venues such as 45 Bleecker, le Possion Rouge, Rose, and several others, Search and Restore brings great music to a hungry audience. Now the project is increasing its scope, and hopes to raise $75,000 to document the jazz scene with an online video project. The goal is to reassure people across the globe that their appetites for music that carries weight in today's artistic milieu can indeed be sated.

According to the National Endowment for the Arts' 2008 Survey of ­Public Participation in the Arts, the jazz audience is shrinking. Adam Schatz, co-founder of Search and Restore, sees the jazz media as the problem. In a letter calling for help to fund the video project, he writes, "The fact that the media coverage of jazz has been in strictly traditional outlets with heavy references to the past reinforces the stigma of jazz as an old music. Coupled with cover charges at high-profile clubs of $30 or more, new fans are increasingly less likely to discover and connect with the music."
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From: http://jazz.about.com/b/2010/10/16/help-search-and-restore-document-the-new-jazz-scene.htm