I remember my first visit to the United States well. The year was 2018. My colleagues and I had just returned from…
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Each new descent into Montenegro brings me emotional fulfillments similar to those generated by great music. That makes the exhausting journey with…
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Winners of 2024 JJA Jazz Awards announced: DeJohnette, McBride, Redman, Friedwald among top honorees
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners of its 29th annual JJA Jazz Awards for excellence in music and music journalism. Among…
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Insults couldn’t pierce the thick skin of musicians like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong or Count Basie, long accustomed to bigoted slurs and…
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Michael Cuscuna, known best as a record producer associated with Blue Note Records and co-founder of Mosaic Records, has died. A sophisticated…
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The Jazz Journalists Association proudly announces its slate of 2024 Jazz Heroes, people who go beyond their job titles to have have…
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The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the schedule for its spring 2024 Jazz Heroes and Jazz Awards campaigns. Thirty-three “activists, advocates, altruists,…
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Interviews with authors of the 12 nominees in two JJA Books of the Year (2023) categories are now being posted at episodes…
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Vid Jeraj , the JJA’s man in Serbia, talks with Hayden Chisholm, the genre-defying alto saxophonist and entrepreneur from Down Under, now…
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Reuben Jackson, an acclaimed Washington-based jazz historian, radio host, poet, teacher, music critic, died on February 16, 2024. The previous week he…
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As platforms for music criticism seem to shrink, jazz is in danger with losing one of its most important kinds of documentation:…
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