How the Bull City's Dynamic Jazz Scene Keeps Time

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How the Bull City's Dynamic Jazz Scene Keeps Time

On a recent frigid Saturday night, snow still sticking to the ground, I approach Sharp 9 Gallery. A velvet curtain swings open to reveal an intimate space—rows of candlelit tables and chairs, a petite bar in the back—that serves as a love letter to New York City’s Village Vanguard. For the past decade-plus, Sharp 9, founded in 2012, has been a locus of the Durham jazz scene. It’s a robust scene, one bolstered by NC Central University’s jazz prog…