Jazz: Past, Present and Future

Published: March 4, 2008, 5:20 a.m.

b'When Herbie Hancock\'s "River: The Joni Letters" won album of the year\\nlast month at the 50th Grammy Awards, it marked the first time a jazz\\nalbum took had won top honors since Stan Getz and Jo\\xe3o Gilberto won for\\n"Getz/Gilberto" in 1965. Does the Hancock\'s win signal the start of a\\npopular resurgence for jazz, or was beating Kanye West and Amy\\nWinehouse merely a pleasant surprise with no larger implications.
\\n\\xa0for the jazz world?
Hear Hartford jazz musicians Steve Davis, Rich Goldstein and Nat Reeves discuss Hancock\'s win and what it means for jazz.'