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NEA Jazz Masters as New Yorkers

Are all Jazz Masters in/of NYC? Most, yes — but can that last? My new City Arts column. See photos that demonstrate the thesis.

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photo by Tom Pich: back row, l to r: Rocco Landesman (NEA Chairman, NYC), Cedar Walton (NYC), Bobby Hutcherson, Bill Holman, Kenny Barron (NYC), Wayne Brown (NEA Director of Music and Opera); front row: Yusef Lateef, George Avakian (NYC), Muhal Richard Abrams (NYC), Annie Ross (NYCP

NEA Jazz Masters Group Photo Jan. 13 2010. Credit Frank Stewart for Jazz at Lincoln Center-1.jpg

photo by Tom Pich — Assembled NEA Jazz Masters at Jazz at Lincoln Center Jan. 12 2010: from back row, l – r: Gunther Schuller, Yusef Lateef, Dan Morgenstern (NYC), Paquito D’Rivera (North Bergen NJ), Buddy DeFranco, Bill Holman, Lee Konitz (NYC), Bobby Hutcherson, Jimmy Cobb (NYC), Randy Weston (NYC); middle row: Cedar Walton (NYC), Toshiko Akiyosh (NYC), Muhal Richard Abrams (NYC), Dr. Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron (NYC), Ramsey Lewis, George Wein (NYC), Tom McIntosh, Frank Wess (NYC), Annie Ross (NYC); front row: George Avakian (NYC), James Moody, Gerald Wilson, Candido Camero (NYC), Frank Foster (NYC), Jimmy Heath (NYC), Joe Wilder (NYC), Chico Hamilton (NYC), Roy Haynes (NYC).
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Howard Mandel

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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