NEW YORK, NY, September 13, 2021 — Impresario, promoter, pianist, art collector and philanthropist George T. Wein, co-founder and creator of the Newport Jazz Festival® and the…
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Sad to hear that Phil Schaap has passed. Our paths intersected during my 1985-2008 stint at WKCR, Columbia University’s radio station. I…
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July 15, 2020 — Today brought news of at least the 100th jazz-related death from Covid-19 since the pandemic began. Singer and…
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Author, editor, radio-show host, classicist, educator, fervent proponent of women in jazz, founding member of the Jazz Journalists Association and its historian,…
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William A. “Bill” Brower, a writer, producer, stage-manager, fest organizer and programmer, retail buyer, interviewer for the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program…
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Bob Porter, record producer, WGBO program host, discographer, author of the book Soul Jazz: Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975 and a…
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JJA member Christian Broecking, a critical author, scholar and educator, founding director of Berlin Jazz Radio, contributor to Berliner Zeitung among other…
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An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died…
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Kiyoshi Koyama, the editor who improved Japan’s Swing Journal and produced important historic reissues of jazz recordings in handsome, informative boxed sets…
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Veteran jazz journalist Lee Jeske, who covered the scene from his New York City base starting in the late 1970s, passed away…
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Dick Conte of KCSM (San Mateo) has reported the death of Bill Moody, a JJA member, jazz drummer, radio show host and…
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An extensive list of hundreds of international esteemed jazz, blues, gospel and “creative music” instrumentalists, singers and adherents of those arts who died in…
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