Half a dozen jazz musicians and a jazz biographer have been honored in the past two weeks with fellowships carrying significant financial…
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The JJA has applied for a Knight News Challenge Grant to expand and strengthen the network that ties together jazz creators, presenters…
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Websites like Kickstarter.com – and ArtistShare, a comparable plan that preceded it -- have provided creative types with a community-backed alternative to…
MorePlease note: JJANews has installed a new aggregated column: Jazz World News. This feature is being moderated JJANews editors, who will post…
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MoreAccording to partial, “first look” results of the Future of Music Coaltion’s Money from Music Survey, independent jazz musicians on average made…
MoreKatie Malloch, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s devoted voice of jazz, is retiring after four decades of support for a scene that’s grown…
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Trumpeter Nicholas Payton calls what he does BAM, for black American music, avering that negative connotations of the “j-word” does the music…
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"One day with a lot of great bands, mainly original music, a lot of personalities." -- Ernest Stuart…
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Arnold Jay Smith blogs about the late John Levy, 1913 – 2012 — bassist, manager to jazz greats, NEA Jazz Master.…
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High school students from the Germantown Central School District on New York State (about 20 miles northeast of Woodstock) had a go at…
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These jazz, blues and otherwise musical artists, journalists, industry leaders, educators and related personages died in 2011 — compiled by W. Royal…
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