The JJA’s eyeJAZZ Training program held its first online webinar on March 17, welcoming 33 “official” trainees and countless more participants to…
MoreAvant-gardist to rockers, musicians have answered the disaster in Japan resulting from tsunami, earthquake and nuclear reactor failures by establishing fundraiser benefits…
MoreThe Newport Jazz Festival, along with the Newport Folk Festival, will from now on be produced under the rubric of the Newport…
MoreNew analysis of National Endowment for the Arts data on American participation in the arts, from Curt Hopkins of ReadWriteWeb, has been posted…
MoreNational Medals of Arts and Humanities were conferred by Barack Obama on Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Jacques Barzun, Philip Roth and 16…
MoreI forgot what prompted me to send for a sample issue of Cadence, circa 1988, but once I did, I was hooked.…
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Cadence magazine, a periodical edited and published by Bob Rusch of North Country Distributors in Redwood Landing, New York, since 1976, announced…
MoreThe National Endowment for the Arts has announced plans to end its 30-year-old Jazz Masters program. See blog posts by JJA President…
MoreJazz really is everywhere, as demonstrated by the 186 would-be jazz videographers from around the U.S. — and the world — who…
MoreA chart graphing year-end shipment statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from 1973 until 2009, prepared and issued by Bain,…
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Editor’s Note: Willard Jenkins is a journalist, arts consultant and presenter, co-author of African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston, and instigating…
MoreAll About Jazz-New York, billed as “the city’s only homegrown jazz gazette,” will be changing its name to The New York City…
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