Bret Primacks diverse writing experience includes everything from comedy
to seminars and for more than twenty-five years, his words have been spoken
by actors and executives, and published internationally.
A Jazz enthusiast since the age of twelve, he is the author of nearly three
hundred articles about musicians for JazzTimes, Down Beat, Omni, People and
Swing Journal. In addition to journalism, he has also written liner notes
for such artists as McCoy Tyner, Clark Terry, Ella Fitzgerald, Paquito
D'Rivera and Maynard Ferguson.
An interest in drama led Bret to co-found the Jazz Theatre Workshop in
1979, which produced the off-Broadway sensation, "Bebop, The Hip Musical,"
featuring Gary Bartz, Walter Davis, Jr., and Charli Persip. In 1992, he
conducted the workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York,
writing and directing two original musicals with students from the Jazz
program, "All Saxophonists Will Be Shot On Sight," and "Scenes From A Life
In Jazz."
Bret served as Director of Jazz Central Station, the largest jazz website,
from the fall of 1996 until September of '97 although he was associated with
the site since it's inception in 1995, serving as Managing Editor for its
debut on the Microsoft Network, and later on the web in early '96. He
also wrote and produced the official Miles Davis website.
A resident of Brooklyn, NY, Bret is the author of "The Ben Hecht Show,"
published MacFarland and Company. His play about Hecht's World War II
propaganda efforts to save the dying Jews of Europe, "The Pariah," was
produced in 1995 at the Schoolhouse Theatre in Croton Falls, New York.
