A mainstream fusion

FOR a newspaper that prints virtually no serious, sustained coverage of jazz, I found it ironic (and more than a little hypocritical) for you to devote a full page to an empty article like “Mayday for the Music Too” [Nov. 6].

The audience for jazz always has been limited, and nothing will change that; yet those who follow the music will tell you that it lives and grows despite this. Do true jazz fans really care about “branding” the music with a better image to make it more attractive to a mass audience? Of course not. Who honestly believes that more people would listen to the music if only they hadn’t watched some nonsense portrayed on a TV show [“Sex and the City”]?

Jazz does not need a PR campaign. But it could use a newspaper that gives its readers something to make them want to listen to the music.

DAVID FREEDMAN

Los Angeles