“Nigerians prefer jazz to classical or secular music.” That was how one of the patrons summed up his experience as the annual Runway Jazz festival, came to a rousing close last Sunday night in LagoIndeed, the patron was not wrong. This year’s jazz festival was an explicit proof that jazz music has come to stay in Nigeria, The quality audience was both larger and more enthusiastic, which left an impression that the appreciation of this genre of music is growing in leaps and bounds in the country.