New Mexico in Focus; Jazz in the Southwest

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · May 20, 2001

Jazz and the Southwest Ken Burns’ voluminous and much talked-about “Jazz” documentary, has created a surge of interest in jazz music. Three New Mexico jazz presenters say the challenge now is sustaining and broadening the interest the series awakened. Find out about the local jazz scene and how these presenters are bringing world class jazz to New Mexico. Guests: (package features concert footage of Elvin Jones and the Jazz Machine, Cindy Blackman Quartet, Pharaoh Sanders Quintet, Ahmad Jamal, and Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band) Tom Guralnick (Executive Director, Outpost Productions), Michael Kenyon (Executive Director, New Mexico Jazz Workshop), Bruce Dunlap (Executive Director, The Open Arts Foundation), and David House (KUNM Music Director). Host: Arcie Chapa.