Forget marketing, forget education: The best hope jazz has of reaching hip-hop kids is to swing like mad, and take a page from the uncompromising Fred Ho, a Brooklyn saxophonist-composer who calls the very name "jazz" a racist slur. The 42-year-old's multimedia events are like Mingus jamborees updated for the performance-art crowd, capturing the emotional feel of radical politics without getting didactic. Ho drew more kids to his... More >>>