Meet the Staff
Meet the featured contributors at All About Jazz.
Meet Lawrence Peryer
by Lawrence Peryer
I currently live in: Normandy Park, WA I joined All About Jazz in: 2011 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a lifelong music fan, and through my work in the music industry I developed a deep appreciation for the art of music criticism and journalism. I always enjoyed writing as well and All About Jazz is an outlet that makes it easy to take a chance and put work in ...
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by Neil Duggan
I currently live in: A small village in the Lincolnshire Wolds, north of Lincoln, UK I joined All About Jazz in: 2023 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I have always used album reviews as a guide to where to spend my hard-earned cash. As All About Jazz was an essential resource for finding new albums and I had previously contributed to a variety of magazines, I thought I would see if ...
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by Katchie Cartwright
I currently live in: San Antonio, Texas. I joined All About Jazz in: 2023. Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? As a recently-retired professor of music, I was looking to supplement my work as a performer with more writing and responded to a call from AAJ. How do you contribute to All About Jazz?I serve as a contributing editor on AAJ, writing and editing reviews and other types of articles. ...
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by Frank Housh
I currently live in: Buffalo, New York I joined All About Jazz in: February 2025 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? Because it's the best damn jazz publication on the internet. How do you contribute to All About Jazz? I do interviews, review concerts and albums, and write the occasional essay. What is your musical background? I began college studying classical guitar but eventually ended up in law ...
Continue ReadingMeet Jack Bowers
by AAJ Staff
This article was first published on All About Jazz on September 5, 2020. I currently live in: Albuquerque, New Mexico I joined All About Jazz in: 1997 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I had been writing about jazz, primarily big bands, for a number of years for various magazines, and AAJ presented an excellent opportunity to continue doing that after I retired from my “day job" as a newspaper ...
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by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC with my five cats, Chloe, Panther, Donovan, Felicia, and Gabriel. I joined All About Jazz in: 2016 Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I was a reader and fan of All About Jazz and I admired the eclecticism and global reach of its coverage. I wanted to see if my writing would fit in here. How do you contribute ...
Continue ReadingMeet Mary Foster Conklin
by AAJ Staff
About Mary Foster Conklin Mary Foster Conklin is a jazz vocalist based in New York City. She hosts A Broad Spectrum, a weekly broadcast celebrating women composers and lyricists on Sunday afternoons on the HD2 channel at WFDU FM based at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. The campus closed down in March due to the pandemic, so the show is now prerecorded in her apartment (with the long distance assistance of engineer Jay Daniels, two tin cans and ...
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by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: Indian Trail, North Carolina (just outside of Charlotte). I joined All About Jazz in: I joined in 2012, after reading the site casually for a couple of years. I answered the call to join the staff in early 2014 (I think), initially as an editor. I kept getting requests for album reviews, and finally published my first one in December, 2014. Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I ...
Continue ReadingMeet Doug Collette
by AAJ Staff
Doug Collette's pedigree for crafting honest and carefully-considered music analysis lies in a nearly fifty year devotion to contemporary rock and roll, jazz and the blues. During this time, his zeal for writing has grown to (almost) equal his devotion to the musical experiences he has documented from his astute observations of records, videos, books and concerts (plus a few mutually-enlightening dialogues with musicians as varied as Americana master Peter Case, esteemed jazz guitarist John Scofield and all three members ...
Continue ReadingMeet La-Faithia White
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: I currently live in High Point, North Carolina. High Point is famously the childhood home of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, and more recently of American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino. I joined All About Jazz in: 2018. Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I began shooting jazz photography in 2011 as a contributing photographer with the John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival. For years my focus was on ...
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