Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header like "The Undead Jazz Festival" in a climate where the sentiment of "Jazz is Dead" feels stronger than ever seems like co-founders Adam Schatz and Brice Rosenbloom were playing into the pessimistic rants of the jazz police who have pronounced this genre DOA. Nothing could be further from the truth, however. Schatz and Rosenbloom have decided to take up the idea that jazz, at least for a time, was dead but has come back stronger than ever. To the audiences who packed Kenny's Castaways over two nights, the hours-long display of new sounds in jazz and creative music sounded more like a phoenix-like rebirth than a Romero-esque horror show...