Jazz Patriarchy

​I am just jotting down something outrageous that I heard last week, which was unfortunately not seen as outrageous. It has been nagging at me that I didn’t say something in the moment, and as a mere tag-on to Sasha Berliner’s must-read open letter to Ethan Iverson and the rest of the jazz patriarchy from a couple of days ago about her experiences of sexism in jazz and how men let themselves off the hook, I wanted to at least mention the most recent mini-absurdity of this kind that I happen to have seen. [Sasha Berliner's piece: http://www.sashaberlinermusic.com/political-and-social-commentary-1/2017/9/21/an-open-letter-to-ethan-iverson-and-the-rest-of-jazz-patriarchy]

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