Reclaiming the Jazzbro

The word has taken on a life of its own. Should I care?

Ask yourself: do I really need this T-shirt, from the Etsy vendor JazzNerdParadise?

This morning, I was sitting at my gate in Terminal C of Philadelphia International Airport — en route to Knoxville for the Big Ears Festival, but you probably knew that — when I got a notification on Instagram. Someone had tagged me into the comments for a reel from the p…