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The documentary DVD Icons Among Us - Jazz In The Present Tense is released. The DVD examines several creative contemporary jazz artists, including Nicholas Payton, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Douglas, Brian Blade, Roy Hargrove, Medeski. Martin and Wood, Bill Frisell and Matthew Shipp, making a powerful case that the new millennium boasts a jazz scene which is as strong and creative as any before it.