Jazz Beyond Jazz

I’ll be speaking about the legacy of Billy Strayhorn on The Barber Shop Show hosted by Richard Steele, live from Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood at noon Friday Nov 6 2015 (rebroadcast 3 pm Sunday) on WBEZ ChicagoPublicMedia.org.

Needledrop & video-viewings of Ornette, Old and New Dreams and their world — I’ll vj with esteemedÂ aficionadosÂ Kate (Hyde Park Jazz Assoc.) Dumbleton, Lofton (WHPK) Emenari and Neil (Playboy Guide to Jazz, et al) Tesser at noon to 3 pm Sat Nov 15 at the Logan Center penthouse (915 E. 60th St., Chicago). Part of HotHouse’s Old and New Dreams festival.

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I'm a Chicago-born (and after 32 years in NYC, recently repatriated) writer, editor, author, arts reporter for National Public Radio, consultant and nascent videographer -- a veteran freelance journalist working on newspapers, magazines and websites, appearing on tv and radio, teaching at New York University and elsewhere, consulting on media, publishing and jazz-related issues. I'm president of the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit membership organization devoted to using all media to disseminate news and views about all kinds of jazz.
My books are Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008). I was general editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree 2005/Billboard Books 2006). Of course I'm working on something new. . . Read More…

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