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Gina Vodegel

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About Me

First, I'd like to say a few words about being an editor for All About Jazz. Even though realtime life had me step back as an editor for a while, this can perhaps inspire others to sign up! The job description is simple, to edit incoming reviews by various contributors. You never know what will be next, what artist or style you'll be reading about. This is a nice surprising element I enjoy very much. And it's also very handy to learn about new music this way!

The work itself requires a sense for the English/American language, of course. And has a few basic and often practical or technical guidelines. In general, contributors are free to write in their own style and voice. As such, editing is never the same, never boring and always a challenge in the most positive meaning of the word. Another nice aspect is the opportunity to communicate and become friends with other people.

Contributors as well as editors hail from different backgrounds, with one main thing they share: commitment to spread the word about music. Good music. So, if you happen to be reading this and feel an itch to join the editorial staff, please do. Visit the AAJ Contributor Center and click the appropriate links. Thank you!

My day job. I am a freelance (copy)writer/journalist/editor/publicist in the Netherlands since 2000. I mainly worked for a Dutch publishing company in the city of Maastricht and wrote, edited and translated (Dutch - English) books about cities and regions in the Netherlands and Belgium. In between the book projects there was all kinds of writing and editing: websites, soccer magazines, children's stories, brochures and regional/local rags. I also wrote (in English) for Crossroads Magazine, an initiative of the European Journalism Centre in Maastricht. Crossroads was for expatriates living in Maastricht.

In 2004, I started Mizar5 (www.mizar5.net) a Steely Dan related website about music people, trivia and 'stuff'. I'm passionate about good music and jazzy 'stuff'. Mizar5 continued as Mizar6 since I abandoned the Steely Dan theme (although we stray not far from it apparently.......) and is only updated whenever the surf's up for something fun or interesting.

Until 2019 I worked as a contributing editor at Puurzaam Magazine for eight years, which is a quarterly magazine published by the Gulpener Beer brewery in the south of the Netherlands. They're a small independent family brewery and the first in the Netherlands to change their production and business ethics focusing on sustainable energy and organic ingredients. And naturally, beer & music's a match made in heaven.

I haven't been contributing to All About Jazz for some time now due to loads of other obligations and an extended furry family of rescued dogs and cats who need a lot of TLC, but I do hope to be back writing CD reviews soon again.

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