February 19, 2004

Advocate Works Night and Day to Assist Needy Jazz Musicians

By Rebecca Gardyn

Getting Wendy Atlas Oxenhorn on the phone is no easy feat. That is, unless you're an insomniac. "Try me either before 9 a.m. or after 11 p.m.," she writes in an e-mail message, after a few rounds of phone tag. "I'm sorry, but with my schedule, those are really the only times I'm free to talk."

"Busy" does not even begin to describe a day in the life of Ms. Oxenhorn, who works seemingly around the clock as the executive director of the Jazz Foundation of America, in New York. After

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