When jazz captures the young
As a student at Boston Arts Academy, Faraday Fontimus, 16, sometimes feels a disconnect between himself and other teens. A trumpet player, he prefers listening to jazz, a form of music many of his friends can’t understand. “The music of my generation is rap,” he said. “My friends can’t find a way to appreciate jazz. They’ll tell me it’s nice, but they don’t really appreciate it.” Fontimus and his classmates got some positive reinforcement today when they came to Harvard University for a special panel discussion with celebrated jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. “The music of my generation is rap. My friends can’t find a way to appreciate jazz. They’ll tell me it’s nice, but they don’t really appreciate it,” 16-year-old Faraday Fontimus told Wynton Marsalis. “To restore integrity to music, we need musicians with integrity,” Marsalis told them, noting how as a young man he turned down record companies that wanted him to compromise...