Miles, Sonny, Your Jazz Story and more

We officially kicked off our Miles Davis centenary celebration with a global tribute project coordinated by senior editor Ian Patterson, who spent the past year gathering reflections from musicians and industry figures spanning 100 countries. It's an absolute must-read.

We also remember legendary tenor saxophonist, NEA Jazz Master and Kennedy Center Honoree Sonny Rollins with two recovered 1999 interviews. Sonny's conversation with Chris M. Slawecki was a particular favorite, and we provide links to all seven Rollins interviews here.

Tell Your Jazz Story

Everyone has a story to share, and over the last few months we've published several deeply personal and memorable pieces, including Les McCann and Me: Laughter, love, and the friendship that changed my life by Joe Alterman; Bob Graf: A St. Louis Tenor Voice the World Almost Missed by Melodi Graf McCraine; Keith Jarrett—My Mother's Favorite Jazz Pianist by Lee Whiteman; Teach A Man To Phish by Leo Sidran; Grit. Discipline. Guts: A 25-Year Blueprint for the Modern Music Career by Lindsey Boullt; and Andy Wasserman, George Russell, and the Living Lineage of the Lydian Chromatic Concept by Patrick Doyle.

We're actively looking for stories to feature in either our The Jazz Life or Journey into Jazz columns—personal reflections, memorable encounters, career lessons, discoveries, friendships, and experiences that helped shape your relationship with jazz. If you have a story worth telling, we'd love to hear from you. Just submit it here.

Ways to List Your Events on Jazz Near You

We encourage musicians, venues, festivals and presenters everywhere to list their events on Jazz Near You. Whether you're promoting a single performance, a weekly jam session or an entire festival schedule, we offer several easy (and free) ways to submit events.

Our tools support single and recurring event submissions, batch uploads for venues and festivals, and imports via XML, JSON and .ics calendar files. We also import events directly from ticketing services.

If your venue or ticketing platform outputs an .ics calendar file, email it to us. If you're not sure if your platform supports .ics exports, ask your vendor. Many platforms already support them, and it's the simplest way to keep your Jazz Near You listings current automatically.

You can explore all submission methods here.

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