Dan Morgenstern is admired for knowledge and sensitivity to musicians and their creative activities throughout the jazz world. Tom Reney explains why.…
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Jazz of a Sunny Day This mental work, what’s the point, Working over things Kneading my flesh Like bread dough Bread is…
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If anyone had told me I would be writing the biography of Sheila Jordan I would have rolled my eyes. Yet, here…
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Jennifer Odell is a New Orleans-based contributing writer for Downbeat Magazine and the Offbeat Magazine. We decided tap her knowledge on what…
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With the launch of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival last weekend (April 26, continuing through May 4), the summer jazz festival season…
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NEW YORK – The Jazz Journalists Association today announced winners of 2014 JJA Jazz Awards in 32 categories of musical achievement. Herbie…
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APRIL 1, NEW YORK CITY — Two dozen “Jazz Heroes” — activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz — have been…
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Best reason to renew JJA memberships if your annual dues are nearly due: The JJA board of directors has approved a dues…
MoreRescheduled for the second time! due to hangups with Google Hangouts, Wednesday April 23 is the new date (at 8 pm EDT) of…
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The JJA’s spring campaign, JazzApril, has begun — a project which encourages grassroots jazz fans to take action during Jazz Appreciation Month, culminating…
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Compiled from sources including local newspapers, Deadrockstars.com, the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt newsletter, AllAboutJazz.com, Wikipedia, the New York Times, Legacy.com, Rolling Stone, Variety, JazzTimes.com,…
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"The panels convene top experts and activists of both jazz-specific and more general cultural arts fields, intending to engage professional practitioners of…
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