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Adding Jazz to Your Menu: An Insiders Guide to Making Jazz Work at Your Restaurant
by Ron Thomas
Principle #1: “The Miles Davis Principle" Miles Davis hated the word Jazz. Duke Ellington wasn't crazy about it either. The word suggested to them an insulting marginalization of their music. Even though you plan to have primarily Jazz in your establishment, avoid the word “Jazz" as much as possible and don't pontificate about the music. Just ...
JJA Presents "Jazz Matters" Panel Discussion Series
The New York Chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association will present the Panel Discussion “How to Get A Book Deal," organized by Lara Pelligrinelli, as part of the JJA's “Jazz Matters" Panel Discussion Series. The discussion will feature a panel of leading editors, agents and authors discussing and offering practical “real-world" publishing advice. Guest panelists include ...
JJA FORUM: Latin Jazz - What's In A Name?
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz defines Latin jazz simply as “jazz in which elements of Latin American music, chiefly its dance rhythms, are particularly prominent." But is that definition sufficient to represent the music created by the entire diaspora of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking people? What sub-categories make sense: Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban, pan-Caribbean, Brazilian, South American? Or ...
Searching For Jazz City - The Case for a Jazz Repatriation Movement
by Walter Kolosky
I've read about a hundred articles over the years proclaiming the imminent death of jazz music. I'm truly sick and tired of them. (Perhaps I should stop reading them). Now, don't get me wrong. I do believe that America's jazz culture is dying. But these journalists never offer any solutions. Years of these gloom and doom ...
The Power of Jazz Critics
by Bret Primack
Some random thoughts on critics, jazz writers and the other self-appointed experts who sit in judgment and tell us what's good and what's bad.With the advent of the Internet, today's listeners have access to much more information about individual releases, being able to listen to sound samples, visit label and artist websites or check ...
The Jazz and Contemporary Classical Overlap: How the Musics Intersect for Musicians, Journalists, and Listeners
The four-part spring “Jazz Matters" panel discussions, sponsored by the Jazz Journalists Association continues at the New School, 55 West 13th St. on Wednesday, April 16th from 6-8PM with “The Jazz and Contemporary Classical Overlap: How the Musics Intersect for Musicians, Journalists, and Listeners." The Music Critics Association of North America joins the JJA for this ...
The Jazz and Contemporary Classical Overlap
The four-part spring “Jazz Matters" panel discussions, sponsored by the Jazz Journalists Association continues at the New School, 55 West 13th St. on Wednesday, April 16 from 6-8PM with “The Jazz and Contemporary Classical Overlap: How the Musics Intersect for Musicians, Journalists, and Listeners." The Music Critics Association of North America joins the JJA for this ...
JJA's Seventh Annual Jazz Awards Update
Celebrates Excellence in Musicianship and Journalism with Final Nominees, Event to be Held at B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill Judi Silvano & James Williams “Tribute To Mal Waldron", New Jazz Composers Octet and David Hazeltine Quartet Set To Perform The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards 2003, the seventh annual presentation of honors to jazz ...
JJA Membership Meeting in NY, Next Week
Dear JJA Members, In place of the fourth panel discussion in the Jazz Matters series, the JJA will hold a rare membership meeting next week -- Wednesday May 21, to be exact -- from 6 to 8 pm at the New School jazz and contemporary music program performance space, 55 W. 13th Street -- this time ...
