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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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Ethereal ensemble expressions – starting with the guimbri, a three-string bass from North Africa, soon enhanced by tenor saxophone, meditative chant, frame…
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With regret but also appreciation, the JJA turns out-of-house for coverage of notable musicians whose lives ended in the calendar year 2023.…
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The bravely creative and far-reaching 43rd edition of Jazzfestival Saalfelden for jazz and improvised music took place in this Austrian town of…
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City of a Million Dreams – Parading for the Dead in New Orleans by Jason Berry with Dr. Michael White, looks deeply…
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