The National Endowment for the Arts has announced plans to end its 30-year-old Jazz Masters program. See blog posts by JJA President…
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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…
MoreCuadernos de Jazz, the 20-year-old, six-issues-annually, Madrid-based music magazine, has given up print and announced that its remaining staff — “young, fresh…
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Risen from the ashes of IAJE under the auspices and hard work of Dr. Lou Fischer and Mary Jo Papich and their…
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Panama is not known for its jazz scene, and currently there isn’t really a conversation about jazz in the small Central American…
MoreAt the Jazz Journalists Association’s “New Media for New Jazz” conference, two town hall-style forums focused on how jazz journalists and presenters…
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[Editor’s note: This piece is in reply to Howard Mandel’s book review, posted December 20, 2010.] Let’s start with what my book…
MoreOn January 10, 2011, the Library of Congress announced its acquisition of a trove of recorded music from the vaults of Universal…
More“Jazz Video Guy” Bret Primack, an eyeJAZZ instructor, explains the eyeJAZZ Training Program in this video, made with the same pocket camera…
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