Anyone who thinks jazz is fading or dying needs to go see Jim Clayton. Not just listen to him; they need to go experience a show.  Last Wednesday, during one of my frequent visits to Toronto, a friend invited me to a show at a local distillery. She lives nearby …

While visiting a friend in the Detroit area, I took a friend to 4M Restaurant, a restaurant in Ann Arbor that we’d visited before. There’s been live music during our first visit, an evening of pleasant jazz but more in a background style. It was the venue and food that …