In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was ""ready for its new Golden Age."" Thomas W. Jacobsen''s The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor''s prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident and longtime jazz aficionado, offers a wide-ranging history of the New Orleans jazz renaissance in the last three decades of the twentieth century, weaving local musical developments into the larger context of the national jazz scene.Jacobsen vividly evokes the changing face of the New Orleans jazz