Not since the Teapot Dome Scandal during the Harding Administration have Americans witnessed anything quite like the Clintons' behavior between 2001 and 2012, when Hillary Clinton resigned as Secretary of State.
Maybe it is unwise to compare the enrichment of the Clintons to the Teapot Dome Scandal, which happened almost 100 years ago, as it is a relatively minor event in American history. But here is a brief tutorial: Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall from 1921-1922 received bribes to lease U.S. government oil properties to several companies at rock bottom prices with no competitive bidding. Ultimately, Secretary Fall went to jail — the first Cabinet member in American history to spend time in prison.
It worked for rock, so why not jazz? Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey, has played drums for the Who, and Jason Bonham has filled his father John's drum seat on tour with Led Zeppelin. Each reconstituted classic rock act was a successful mixture of the old and the new. Both Jason and Zak were capable musicians, and the nostalgia factor helped sell tickets.
In similar fashion, one of the hottest groups in jazz today, the Jack DeJohnette Trio, includes the scions of two jazz giants of the 1960s. Ravi Coltrane, son of iconoclastic saxophonist John Coltrane, plays sax with DeJohnette. And Matt Garrison, whose father, Jimmy, was John Coltrane's bassist, is the bassist in the trio.
