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May 22, 2025
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Orrin Evans with the Captain Black Big Band at the 2025 Exit Zero Jazz Festival, Cape May, NJ. (Frank Scott / Exit Zero Jazz Festival)

At some point last Saturday afternoon, perched on a stool in a tent along a windswept Atlantic beachfront, I took a split second to reflect on my good fortune.

It wasn’t just the weather — a preliminary taste of summer ab…

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