credit: Mirah Ally Upstairs at Jazz Café, some musicians are on stage playing a jazzy cover of Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature”. It is mid-morning and the mood couldn’t have been brighter at this session of Fannugedharin. The bass is groovy, the keyboard runs executed deftly, the drums are muted and at times unsteady, but one can forgive that. At least I can. To bear witness to a gathering such as this, where one of the great art forms of the twentieth century is being inte

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