increasingly, a jazz stage is digital

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/arts/music/smalls-and-other-clubs-are-webcasting-concerts.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=music&adxnnlx=1373676517-oRmQnmwC7ut+HljciLeYEQ&

"Smalls, the endearingly casual Greenwich Village jazz club, was packed on Wednesday night for the first set by the Alex Sipiagin Group. Mr. Sipiagin, an exactingly skilled trumpeter, was celebrating the release of “Live at Smalls,” his new post-bop album on the SmallsLIVE label, for an audience occupying the club’s flea-market assortment of benches, chairs and barstools, or standing around the back of the room.

Spike Wilner manages the club and has designed its digital strategy.

Then there were those who took in the set from a glowing screen, hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Evan Cobb, a 32-year-old saxophonist, was watching a live feed on his computer in a home office in Nashville; Richard Dobbs, 55, a museum-store buyer who moonlights as a saxophonist, was doing much the same in Cambridge, Mass. “It’s one of the better sets I’ve seen,” Mr. Dobbs said the next day, comparing Mr. Sipiagin’s performance to many others he has streamed through the club’s webcast portal, generally at no charge."