Can’t make it to the JJA Jazz Awards gala on June 14 in New York City? This year, for the first time ever, …
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MoreDavid R. Adler wrote liner notes for Alex Sipiagin’s Generations: Dedicated to Woody Shaw. He’ll soon write a piece on Fred Hersch…
MoreNew York, May 24 — Five submissions to the Jazz Journalists Association’s 2010 Jazz Awards “Photo of the Year” category have been…
MoreIt’s been just over a year that I have semi-officially considered myself a jazz writer. It started with this post, which began…
MoreThe JJA Jazz Awards is going bi-coastal, as the Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance in downtown Berkeley, California, has announced a…
MoreSwing Journal, the magazine promoting American jazz in Japan since the end of WWII, ceases publication with its June issue. According to…
MoreJazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations By Sanford Josephson Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2009; 207 pp.; $49.95 hardcover This is a collection…
MoreMatt Marshall, a freelance writer based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is a regular contributor to All About Jazz, Jazz Inside and Cleveland…
MoreFor the past 38 years, Jack Kleinsinger was impresario and host of “Highlights In Jazz,” a moveable fete of jazz luminaries presented…
MoreMay 13, 2010, New York — “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” producers of the Jazz Icons DVD series scolded the Jazz…
MoreWednesday, May 12 — Boston: The Tanglewood Jazz Festival (Sept. 4-5, 2010, in Lenox MA) has announced it will award four performance…
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