Lahore gets a taste of traditional jazz

It isn’t every day that Lahore gets to hear jazz live, up-close and personal. So predictably, the garden at the residence of the US Consulate’s principle officer was near-packed on the evening of September 5 and both the connoisseurs and the less initiated were draped in anticipation of the performance of the Chicago Jazz Quartet (CJQ).

The CJQ, which consisted of vocalist and trumpeter Matt Lewis, pianist Benjamin Lewis, bassist Lorin Cohen and drummer Michael Raynor, was visiting Pakistan under the Jazz Ambassadors Programme, sponsored by the US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs…