Jazz journalism is alive and well, as JJA members are getting their news and views about the music out in every media platform — locally, nationally and internationally.We never sleep! See the most recent publications and other work reported by the extremely active members of the Jazz Journalists Association after the jump.If you’re a JJA member and want your recent activities included in the next installment of Member Updates, send a brief paragraph beginning with your name to membernews@jazzjournalists.org by September 3, 2018.
Saul Addison helped organize and photographed The John Coltrane Music event in Huntington NY to support the restoration of the John & Alice Coltrane Home in Dix Hills NY. Dudley Music, Johnathan Dely, the Funk Filharmonik, Dave Diamond, the Zen Tricksters, Michelle Coltrane performed. The evening was closed out when The Joe Lovano Classic Quartet brought the rain literally. It was a great day of music, workshops, food and fellowship by everyone that attended.
David R. Adler wrote the WBGO.org/NPR Music
Jane Ira Bloom appeared this summer at the Iowa City Jazz Festival and the NYU Summer Jazz Fest @ the Provincetown Playhouse in NYC. Her Early Americans Trio featuring Mark Helias and Bobby Previte performs at Cornelia St Cafe, 29 Cornelia St in NYC on Sun, Sept 16 @ 8:30pm. Her quartet performs at the Monterey Jazz Fest on Fri, Sept 21 @ 9 p.m. and San Francisco Jazz Center on Sun, Sept 23 @ 6 & 7:30p.m.
Debbie Burke‘s debut novel GLISSANDO: A story of love, lust and jazz is now available on Amazon. She has also just been hired as Director of Editorial at Waldorf Publishing.
Steve Griggs interviewed Jim Wilke for an upcoming release of Cannonball Adderley at the Penthouse, performed with Japanese pianist/trumpeter Yuji Hirate at Tula’s, read from his script Blues for John T. Williams at Elliott Bay Books, and will perform with drummer Gregg Keplinger September 8 at Egan’s Ballard Jam House to celebrate the eve of Elvin Jones’ 91st birthday. Steve became president of the Friends of the Seattle Public Library.
James Hale James Hale profiled the jazz program at Portland State University for DownBeat.
Doug Hall is just catching his breath from the Montreal Jazz Festival in July, and having completed his review headed down to cover the Newport Jazz Festival Aug. 3-5th, an event he so much looks forward to as he is always introduced to new and exceptional talent and performances and musicianship. “I also want to thank George Wein – founder and producer since 1954 and at 91 still with his pulse on the jazz scene, offering the rich diversity of jazz to listeners and performers for decades now.”
Steve Monroe‘s July Jazz Avenues for East of the River print and capitalcommunitynews.com
Scott Thompson PR is continuing to grow its client base, adding Abelita Mateus, pianist composer Miggy Miyajima, Dale Head and the MindWinder Orchestra, Australian saxophonist Evan Harris, violinist Ma*JiD, pianist Harold O’Neal and more. Thompson is also publicist for IYOUWE, Lenny White’s new venture; currently working with saxophonist Richard Howell and LehCats with Norbert and Karen Stachel. Thompson is publicist for Elio Villafranca’s 2-CD masterpiece Cinque. DownBeat named Elio “Rising Star – Keyboard” and gave Cinque a 4.5 star rating.
Bert Vuijsje co-produced the CD The Winner, a reissue of the legendary 1964 LP by Dutch saxophonist/clarinetist Herman Schoonderwalt, with five previously unreleased bonus tracks added. The album, on the Dutch Jazz Archive label, was awarded an Edison (the Dutch Grammy) for the best historical jazz production. It’s the third Edison won by the Dutch Jazz Archive in the last five years.
Michael J. West wrote the cover story, on John Coltrane’s Both Directions at Once, for the September issue of JazzTimes. He wrote the liner notes for pianist Cyrus Chestnut’s forthcoming album Kaleidoscope (HighNote) and saxophonist Jared Sims’ The New York Sessions (Ropeadope). He also covered the Istanbul Jazz Festival for Down Beat.
