2026 Rochester (NY) International Jazz Festival – June 19 – 27 by Monk Rowe, Director/Fillius Jazz Archive The 2026 Rochester International Jazz…
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The 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. birth this July will resound with jazz, and not only in the USA. Fests in…
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The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners in the 49 categories of excellence in music and journalism of the 31st annual JJA Jazz Awards.…
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by Harris Meyer While he was far better known in jazz circles as a writer than a musician, Doug Ramsey loved playing…
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How can beautiful, springtime May seem like the shortest month? Is it because the pleasures of Jazz Appreciation Month and International Jazz…
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Standard-bearers and avant-gardists, up-and-comers and a fresh generation of jazz recordings by composers, arrangers and soloists — as well as journalists and…
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As jazz — the music, business and culture of it — depends on an intricate and widespread network of activists, altruists and…
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The JJA is continuing to offer The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association, the unique…
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March — Madness, Hare, Sousa, the Little Women, Fredric, Ides of . . . whatever you associate March with, JJA members march…
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Biographies of trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Kenny Wheeler and Cootie Williams, saxophonist Don Byas, Beat poet Ted Joans and drummer Gene Krupa; two…
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The Jazz Journalists Association will host a Media Meetup on April 29, 2026, especially welcoming writers, broadcasters and photographers visiting Chicago to…
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Happy New Year, Jazz Journalists Association members and friends — please help us celebrate 2026 as the 41st anniversary of the founding…
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