NEW YORK, NEW YORK!

The article presents a reflection on the importance of New York city in the history of jazz and the specificity of jazz from New York in the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Topics include an overview of the history of the context in which New York became essential in the jazz world since 1915, the rising of musicians like Joshua Redman, Chris Potter and Chris Cheek, and the difficult exportation of the jazz from New York city.