Master musician and educator Ron Carter, often credited as jazz’s most recorded bassist, and author Kevin Whitehead, long-running jazz critic on NPR-distributedFresh…
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Jazz journalist, author and radio show host Sammy Stein filed two comprehensive reports last summer on musical activities in the face of…
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Carla Bley, composer-arranger-bandleader and pianist, has won the 2020 JJA Jazz Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz in the 25th annual honors…
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In January 2018, the JJA produced a day-long media summit at the Jazz Gallery. The first session featured writers Jordannah Elizabeth, Michelle…
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Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978-1985, by Carolyn Glenn Brewer; University of North Texas Press, 2017; 308 pps;…
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