Frances Blackwell, widow of drumming great Ed Blackwell, wants to produce a biography of her husband, who died in 1992. She has…
MoreCareFusion, a global firm selling equipment and services to hospitals, announced the end of its two-year jazz-marketing campaign today, pulling sponsorship from…
MoreNew York, October 15 — The second New York “Jazz Matters” meeting of fall 2010, a listening session with four critics blindfold-testing…
MoreIn 2006, the late Sue Markle moved out of Chicago and decided to resign as editor of the JazzGram, the newsletter of…
MoreFollowing up our successful and rewarding September 15 Jazz Matters panel discussion, we’re convening another group of critics to take stock of…
MoreA new monthly magazine, Japan Jazz, website http://www.ymm.co.jp/p/jazz_japan.php, has risen from the ashes of Swing Journal, which suspended operations last May. Volume…
MoreNew York, September 16 — The first New York “Jazz Matters” meeting of fall 2010, a listening session with five critics blindfold-testing…
MoreRaising the stakes of media “musts” for free, city-supported jazz performances, the Detroit International Jazz Festival has announced it will stream video…
MoreMark Gridley, author of Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, a leading textbook introducing the music to undergraduates for three decades, has called…
MoreIn the New York Times. Farewell to one of our absolute greats.…
MoreThe joys of jazz-related summer travel in Italy have long been known. I detail some of the fun I had at the…
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The passing of photographer Dennis Stock earlier this year (at age 81) inspired me to dig out my copy of a now…
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