Like so many performers, Charlap had no idea when he sounded the last notes on March 8 at a jazz festival in Laramie, Wyo., that he was about to endure the indignity of extended, forced idleness. He was still able to teach remotely through the end of the spring semester at William Paterson University, in Wayne, N.J., where he is director of jazz studies. “I had a very robust summer of work,” Mr. Charlap said, “traveling all over the world and the country, playing major festivals, my own festival,” he said. (He serves as artistic director for the Jazz in July series at the 92nd Street Y.) It’s a really big, big loss.

Source: New York Times July 20, 2020 18:33 UTC