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Sammy Stein

Features/Final Bars

RIP Phil Raskin, 1957 – 2025

June 19, 2025

Drummer and composer Phil Raskin (June 10, 1957 – June 9, 2025) told me more than once more than once he was…

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Features

Primer for musicians: How to engage with jazz journalists

January 16, 2022

I am often asked by musicians how to approach journalists to get interviewed or reviewed. Many believe that only by using an…

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Meet-a-Member: In’tl Editor Sammy Stein

August 16, 2021

I should have written this earlier but a pandemic and busy times made it nigh on impossible, so here goes. The Jazz…

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Jazz on Lockdown/Jazz Worldwide

Jazz Rebounds: Mediterranean Report

April 26, 2021

“Bastarduna” is the Sicilian term for the second bloom of the prickly pear cactus, which produces larger fruit than the first. That…

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