Nate Chinen, the JJA’s Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award winner, assesses the fine career of the late Willem Breuker for The New York…
MoreNew York, July 30th — MOJA Radio host and JJA Member Russ Davis attended the JJA’s 2010 Jazz Awards event at City…
MoreWhat does a writer need to know in order to write both well, and also dispassionately, about music? Many musicians feel that…
MoreColleagues take note! We have two upcoming Jazz Matters panel discussions confirmed — Wednesday, September 8th September 15th and Wednesday, October 6th. Both…
MoreWired has the story (via Arts Journal): “Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun…
MoreVia the JJA’s Larry Blumenfeld: Tonight’s (July 22) “Tavis Smiley Reports” primetime special, “New Orleans: Been in the Storm Too Long,” was produced…
MoreThanks to Media Bistro (and Youtube) for bringing this ode of joy to JJA attentions, and to Bill Dyszel for its creation (see…
MoreRedwood, NY — Cadence magazine, the independent quarterly journal of improvised music, has created a new (and still under contruction) website, http://www.cadencemagazine.com.…
MoreThree Chords for Beauty’s Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw By Tom Nolan W. W. Norton, New York, 2010; 430 pp.; $29.95…
MoreFor decades Mike Zwerin was the significant American in Paris for a floating readership of world travelers and settled expats, ready with…
MoreThe JJA’s Brett Delmage is working to put Ottawa’s jazz scene on the map — his website OttawaJazzScene.ca is one year old…
MoreThe beloved artist and jazz writer Harvey Pekar passed on July 12. Patrick Jarenwattananon of ABS has a roundup, pointing us to…
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