“Why Jazz?”: A Music Festival Review
“Jazz is not a live being, and music is not subject to our laws of time.”

We returned to L’Astral, and the Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo Knower were playing. The drummer began rapping, “The government knows when you masturbate.” I was so distracted by the lyrics that I forgot to record a section of it before we ended up behind the TD Stage, where the 150th anniversary of Canada Day celebration was going on, as it was the first of July.


Simeon Marsalis was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He is from New Rochelle, New York, and has lived in New York City and New Orleans. His debut novel, As Lie Is to Grin, is published by Catapult.
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