Why does the most beautiful month of spring go so fast? May’s come and
almost gone, April is but memories (but what memories! — the 30th Annual JJA Jazz Awards, 25th annual Jazz Heroes, the JJA Zoom Bash for the Heroes and Jazz Appreciation Month, then Int’l Jazz Day) . . .
And JJA members have been busy all the while. Doing what? See page 2 . . . But first! —
New JJA members are Deborah Eastwood, brass player and professor at Morehead State University of Morehead, KY; photographer Ljupcho Hristoski of Passaic, NJ; writer Allen Michie of Austin, TX; Daniel Polletta, afternoon host for Ideastream Public Media’s JazzNEO station in Cleveland; Peggy Raley, a radio/tv program host, festival producer, educator and musician based in Lewes, DE; Andrew Schinder of Mountain Lakes, NJ; Jeff Schwartz, bassist, author and retired librarian of Culver City, CA;
Syd Schwartz, liner note writer and web producer of Scarsdale, NY, and, as an associate member, Francesco Cataldo Verrina, principal of DOPPIO JAZZ- Storie di Uomini & Dischi, author, radio show host, educator, promoter and art director of the European jazz contest “Perugia Award Alberto Alberti for Jazz” which takes place annually in Umbria, Italy.
Now, on to page 2 ———->>>>>>>>
