…t of creativity bottleneck restricting how many new ideas, styles, and compositions can get through. That great program teaching free jazz guitar and saxophone lessons to inner-city fifth-graders after school? Its funding was cut to make up for budget shortfalls. That shy guitar virtuoso with dyslexia and autism who dropped out of eleventh grade? He’s working 60 hours a week at three gig economy jobs just to pay rent. The girl with straight-A grades whose greatest pleasure was leading her college choir? She’s been steered into an investment banking career to pay off crushing student loans. To all the older folks bemoaning the wretched state of music these days and wondering where all the…
