BBC Jazz Blog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jazz/2007/02/jazz_grammys_business_as_usual.shtml

This is a "blog" post about the current location of jazz's strongest scene. The article opens with
online author Alex Webb using a "they say/ I say" template. He says the "they say" is the opinion that the center of the jazz scene is moving from the United States to Europe. He follows this with examples of how this idea can be supported. Most of the musicians from the great eras of jazz have long since passed on to the great jazz club in the sky and the last remaining icons are in thier old age. Today's musicians are no longer the international super-stars that Miles Davis and Duke Ellington were, jazz has become less popular in the U.S. than it used to be. As a result European musicians have stepped up to the plate and are keeping the music much more alive than it is here. This is all the "they say" still."
After this summary he makes a second "they say" pointing out the other side of the argument. Webb notes the thriving jazz community in New York City. He goes on to say that the first ideas presented were from a European perspective and that there are different ideas on diferent sides of the pond. It is only after this that Webb delivers his "I say". Namely that the Grammy Awards do not reflect the movement of jazz to Europe. He names several European musicians he considers noteworthy that did not recieve Grammy nominations and a list of US ones who did. His they say is also a restatment of his earlier note that whether jazz is bigger in Europe or the US is a matter of opinion, not fact.