Noal Cohen added a new section to his website on the great pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr.
Jose Dos Santos has contributed articles for the daily special magazine of the Jazz Plaza 2024 International Festival. He worked as part of the jury in the Jazz and Instrumental Music categories for the Cubadisco 2024 Fair, which is currently being held. He has now written and produced more than 100 programs for La Esquina del Jazz, of the CMBF radio station.
Francisco Rocky Garcia has been working on the completion of “Darker Than Blue,” his monograph of jazz and spoken word images taken over the course of two decades.
Doug Hall completed a long form piece, profiling the life of Miles Davis for WICN’s Artist of the Month feature for May, ’24. and continues his podcast program with an interview with Lisa Hilton, California-based jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and producer. playing snippets of songs from her ’24 release Coincidental Moment.
Ian Mackenzie broadcast a tribute on May 8 to Phil Nimmons, who passed away at the age of 100 in April. He also wrote a companion piece about Nimmons’ career and contribution to Canadian jazz here.
Howard Mandel wrote about a half-dozen Chicago gigs (including member Lauren Deutsch’s “Tangible Visions” immersive photo-music exhibit) for Mandel’s Media Diet; he reviewed the reissue of Sonny Rollins’ Nights at the Village Vanguard and two rarities by Archie Shepp, as well as pianist-composer Andy Milne’s Time Will Tell for DownBeat. He also presented Jazz Hero Awards to Hyde Park Jazz Society stalwarts Judith Stein, Almarie Wagner and Charlie Thomas.
Michael J. West wrote an Album of the Day feature on the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Message to Our Folks (reissue) for Bandcamp; previewed Jason and Alicia Hall Moran’s Family Ball and Mulatu Astatke’s DC concert for the Washington Post; and featured Leigh Pilzer in his Swing Beat column for Washington City Paper.
