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| Howard Mandel: Future Jazz |
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Mandel, who's lived in New York City since 1982, has pursued jazz, blues, new
and unusual musics for more than 25 years as an writer, editor, broadcaster
and webcaster. A two-time winner of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award for Excellence
in Music Journalism, he was first published in the Chicago Daily News, and
has contributed to the Village Voice, National Public Radio, the New York
Times Book Review, Jazziz, The Wire, Swing Journal and Musical America, among
many other periodicals. He's edited Down Beat, Billboard, Ear and RhythmMusic
magazines, and is editorial director of Jazzhouse (www.jazzhouse.org),
website of the Jazz Journalists Association (of which he's serving a second
three-year term as president).He Also teaches "The Arts: Jazz" and "Roots of
American Music" at New York University and has produced blues albums by Mama
Estella Yancey and Erwin Helfer, as well as the public radio series "Jazz,
Chicago" and "Improvisers Unlimited."
Mandel was born and raised on Chicago's South Side, and moved with his family to Wilmiette when he was 16. Around that time, he encountered future jazz in the music of Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor and the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) . After graduating Syracuse University in 1972, he lived near Wrigley Field, worked at the Jazz Record Mart and became a copy clerk, Then a reviewer of jazz, blues, books, films and uncategorizable events at the Chicago Dailey News. Mandel studied Story Workshop for five semesters at Chicago's Columbia College before relocating to Manhattan's East Village, where he lives today with his wife, composer-performer Kitty Brazelton, and their daughter Rosalis Moon Mandel. Mandel improvises on flutes, plays blues piano in G and C, dabbles with puppets, and cooks. He rides a bike and reads detective fiction. |
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