Grammy Salute to Jazz
Review: 'Grammy Salute to Jazz' at Club Nokia. 
At this year's "Grammy Salute to Jazz," there was a lot of talk about the future. Inside the crisp, modern Club Nokia at the L.A. Live complex downtown Tuesday night, performers and presenters such as Herbie Hancock, Natalie Cole and Recording Academy President Neil Portnow all gestured at the fresh faces of the high-school-aged Grammy Jazz Ensembles program filling the bandstand and assured an audience of elegantly dressed fans that jazz's future is indeed in good hands.
And though one of the still-anonymous prodigies backing luminaries such as Joe Lovano, Cassandra Wilson and Hancock might rise to carry jazz into its next era of greatness, the unquestioned star of this night was the past.
Honoring the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records, this ramp-up to
the Grammys' big show Sunday .........
-- Chris Barton
Photo: Herbie Hancock breaks into a smile after performing with
the Grammy Jazz Ensemble Tuesday night. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los
Angeles Times
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