The current state of jazz radio as told by two veteran broadcasters and an independent marketer based in the Northwest, repping Blue Note Records and Mack Avenue, among others —
THE JJA PODCAST
that’s the focus of the fifth episode of The Buzz: The JJA Podcast. Rick Mitchell, JJA board member, author of Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well and producer of a nationally nationally syndicated radio show of the same name, hosts the discussion with Linda Yohn (Detroit-area winner of the JJA’s 2021 Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Excellence in Broadcasting) and Cheryl Symister-Masterson (host of the music show Jazz Disturbance and music-interview Situation Fluxus, based in upstate New York), with Groov Marketing Northwest’s co-owner Mark Rini, whose job is to “get the good stuff on the radio.”
The Buzz episode 4 is entitled “Look at Jazz Criticism,” and features John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and a Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethic Studies at the University of Vermont with Giovanni Russonello, jazz critic for the NY Times, also hosted by Mitchell.
In The Buzz episode 3, Mitchell guides JJA board member Neil Tesser (author, radio producer) and Mark Ruffin (Sirius XM “Real Jazz” host and 2021 Book of the Year nominated author) in their evaluation of the 2022 JJA Jazz Awards winners (see them with all 2022 nominees at JJAJazzAwards.org). Note: Views expressed in this program are not necessarily representative of the JJA members as a whole.
The Buzz is produced by a JJA committee, with new episodes dropping every two weeks. Episode 2 has JJA board member and writer Bob Blumenthal with others of the Book Awards committee he chairs, and JJA board member Susan Brink discussing the 2022 Jazz Heroes, with a visit by 2018 Portland Hero Marcia Hocker.
