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2009.11.07: Jazz at Lincoln Center ducats, Wynton-Willie dvd giveaways!
2009.11.06: US remains jazz central
2009.11.05: Henry Threadgill, seer beyond 'jazz'
2009.10.27: JazzTimes' robust recovery
2009.10.25: Sweet Rhythm quietly ends run as Village jazz stage
2009.10.23: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009, friend to jazz
2009.10.23: Salsa dura and NYC jazz hot
2009.10.20: Jazz Foundation knows how to party
2009.10.16: #jazzlives Twitter campaign update, week 7
2009.10.12: Miles Ornette Cecil goes Kindle
2009.10.07: Future of music journalism: It's about the audience (?)
2009.10.05: Everybody's talking about arts journalism
2009.10.04: Last week in New York beyond jazz
2009.10.02: Jazz journalism and the NAJP's arts journalism summit
2009.09.23: City Arts, my jazz-in-the-City column
2009.09.20: Best American city for jazz? Chicago
2009.09.17: Today's the day NYC goes beyond jazz
2009.09.07: #jazzlives weekend update: 12-day count of tweeting fans
2009.09.03: #jazzlives: listeners tweet from across the U.S.
2009.08.28: Social networking does its #jazzlives stuff
2009.08.26: You've heard live jazz ? Tweet using #jazzlives
2009.08.24: Tonight Show band all-stars, slammin' at NYC's Blue Note
2009.08.23: Les Paul's tongue
2009.08.17: Best DC jazz presenter: Kennedy Center
2009.08.14: Smithsonian jazz '09-'10: four shows and JAM
2009.08.13: Rashied Ali, multi-directional drummer, interviewed
2009.08.13: Rashied Ali (1935 - 2009), multi-directional drummer, speaks
2009.08.11: U.S. institutions promoting jazz?
2009.08.10: Year of the Blues Images calendar, 2010
2009.08.09: Mr. Teachout gets the word: Jazz's Swing Era popularity past
2009.08.07: Paeans to Hank Jones
2009.08.06: Meet the Composer grants -- not for improvisers
2009.08.02: best review ever of Miles Ornette Cecil -- Jazz Beyond Jazz
2009.07.30: Summertime, and the listening should be easy
2009.07.28: Backlash against grants for jazz?
2009.07.26: Earma Thompson, unheralded piano jazz star, dies at 86
2009.07.22: Mandela Day African music fest, Brooklyn
2009.07.19: Fast impressions, new jazz 'n' out cds
2009.07.16: On magazine's circulation figures
2009.07.14: Short end of Jazz Times' good news
2009.07.13: More on Jazz Times
2009.07.13: Jazz mag revived?
2009.07.08: Jazz health, bright moments
2009.06.30: In lieu of JVC Jazz festivals
2009.06.29: Zx1 pocket camera stars at 2009 Jazz Awards!
2009.06.28: Chicago's quirky hero of blues and jazz in NYT
2009.06.26: Furor over jazz sexism (continues)
2009.06.23: Michelle Obama refutes jazz as boys' club
2009.06.19: Jazz, that classy music
2009.06.18: Happy and sad news updates
2009.06.18: 2009 JJA Jazz Award Winners
2009.06.13: Jazz "bloat" gone? Phoenix rising from ashes?
2009.06.11: Tina Marsh, Austin's avant-jazz leader, gravely ill
2009.06.09: JazzTimes "temporarily suspended," staff "furloughed"
2009.06.05: Jazz Times crisis confirmed
2009.06.04: Domino effect of JVC Jazz Fest failure on Jazz Times?
2009.06.04: Blues fans grieve the Queen
2009.06.03: Losing a jazz mag?
2009.05.28: Cecil and Miles in NYC (and India)
2009.05.28: On The Corner program notes, Merkin Hall concert 5/25/09
2009.05.21: Hurray for the new NEA Jazz Masters
2009.05.21: Take an "outside" chance on musical experimentation
2009.05.20: JVC Jazz Fest-NY cancellation reported
2009.05.17: Julie Coryell, jazz author, manager, muse
2009.05.15: What do women want (of jazz clubs)?
2009.05.12: Life's a pitch: Where are the women jazz listeners?
2009.05.08: Announcing 13th annual JJA Jazz Awards nominees and gala
2009.04.27: "Big Three" jazz guitarists extended to a couple dozen
2009.04.24: McLaughlin-Corea Five Peace Band and a fan's disappointment
2009.04.16: Manhattan jazz residencies (my new City Arts column)
2009.04.15: Vision Festival, NYC's sole surviving summer jazz big bang
2009.04.11: Guggenheim's seven jazz-related winners
2009.04.07: Al di Meola and the Fusion Wars pt 1
2009.04.06: Lose some, gain some
2009.04.04: Modern "classical" composition informing Jazz Beyond Jazz
2009.04.01: Cecil Taylor's most recent recording, free mp3
2009.03.29: Cecil Taylor at 80, part two: A brief review
2009.03.27: Cecil Taylor, unique and predominant, 80 years old
2009.03.18: Reasons to be cheerful: Wynton books Ornette
2009.03.17: Wein's jazz fest without JVC Corp
2009.03.15: Happy Birthday, Fred Anderson
2009.03.11: PBS fundraising week: jazz & soul tv abounds
2009.03.04: Recent NEA grants-getters win again in Arts Recovery act
2009.03.03: George Wein to produce Newport jazz & folk fests
2009.03.01: Blunt notes from casual CD listening -- reactions, not reviews
2009.02.27: Big Ears in the White House: Obama's boomer soul, and predecessors
2009.02.21: Jajouka-beyond-jazz, public interviews and local acts at Portland fest
2009.02.19: Safety net tears: E*Trade ends emergency funds for jazz musicians
2009.02.18: Portland jazz fest hails Blue Note, cancels Cassandra
2009.02.14: Al Green and Sonny Rollins, now and then
2009.02.09: Eddie Palmieri sets Jazz at Lincoln Center afire
2009.02.07: A visitation with Don Cherry's spirit
2009.01.17: Civil Rights-Jazz document, 1963
2009.01.15: Armstrong to Ellington to Obama
2009.01.14: Cutting Contest, online
2009.01.12: Parameters of jazz now
2009.01.07: Manhattan music surge for APAP
2009.01.06: Hope we still hope we can believe in
2008.12.31: South Asian-American jazz from New York
2008.12.30: Freddie plays, Freddie talks
2008.12.29: Celebrating Freddie Hubbard, the intrepid fox
2008.12.22: late gift ideas
2008.12.12: I wake up screaming
2008.12.05: Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard ailing
2008.11.30: Ten top of 2008 and many more recommendations
2008.11.22: Classic Monk, classical Jazz at Lincoln Center
2008.11.16: Guitar heroes, virtual and actual
2008.11.11: Mostly Other People's killer liner notes
2008.11.05: The jazz of victory and celebration
2008.10.31: hail Studs Terkel, Jazz Age Chicagoan
2008.10.30: Globalism in the Azores
2008.10.21: Jazz masters in the Azores
2008.10.16: Colbert & Coleman: Name that tune
2008.10.14: Live in New York, it's jazz beyond jazz
2008.10.10: Colbert's tin ear
2008.10.01: Jazz time-out of the year?
2008.10.01: Alaska Airlines to the rescue: Portland Jazz Fest revived
2008.09.29: Berklee College, Boston: a jazz education mecca
2008.09.28: Help Pandora -- save online radio
2008.09.21: Presidential politics and jazz: Show of hands
2008.09.08: Bad news from the Northwest: Portland Jazz Fest dies
2008.09.05: Who decides who's an NEA Jazz Master
2008.09.03: Meet the NEA's new Jazz Masters
2008.09.01: Chicago hears Ornette Coleman -- This is our music
2008.08.30: Benefits of aficionado-programmed fests
2008.08.29: Sonny Rollins in Chicago
2008.08.28: Chicago jazz fest in neighborhood clubs
2008.08.24: World Music redefined by blogs
2008.08.23: Jazz fests of August
2008.08.16: Pandora radio on deathbed?
2008.08.15: New beyond-jazz in NYC clubs
2008.08.06: Sony owns America's music
2008.07.30: Giants on earth
2008.07.29: Odd noise music alert, Brooklyn
2008.07.24: Hear here! BBC jazz awards show online 'til July 30
2008.07.23: BBC honors Return to Forever and UK homies
2008.07.20: iPhone + Pandora = open sesame
2008.07.15: Newport by bus
2008.07.14: What every infant should hear
2008.07.11: David Byrne's building about music, and chimes
2008.07.07: Return to Ever?
2008.06.22: Jazz, secure, shrugs off "joke" threat
2008.06.13: Prophecy fulfilled: the future now at jazz fests
2008.06.12: Good time blues
2008.06.04: Hometown-of-Obama Blues
2008.05.27: What's in a Jazz Award?
2008.05.22: The new future
2008.05.21: Listen up! Listings, May 23 - May 29
2008.05.15: Comin' right up -- Matt Miller foresees jazz beyond jazz
2008.05.15: Modest proposal, and recommendations
2008.05.11: Freddie Hubbard, the AACM and me in Down Beat
2008.05.11: Comin' right up -- introducing Matt Miller
2008.05.08: Franz Jackson, seven-decade jazz master
2008.05.05: Where's TiVo for live performance?
2008.04.28: Jazz in the Ural tradition
2008.04.23: Wynton's Abyssinian Mass by guest blogger
2008.04.18: Jazz educators go south
2008.04.15: Seattle radio play
2008.04.05: Serious about pop
2008.04.02: jazz clubs in transit
2008.03.25: Ornette at Town Hall and in Japan
2008.03.23: Out To Lunch in the zone
2008.03.17: Political poetry in Bed-Stuy
2008.03.07: Ornette speaks!
2008.03.04: flattered and bemused
2008.03.02: Musicians dread words
2008.02.27: Robbe-Grillet's discordant modernism
2008.02.25: Butch Morris, jazz conductor
2008.02.19: More from Portland
2008.02.16: too much fun
2008.02.12: Rivers' win: Bad for jazz?
2008.02.11: Top 10 2008 -- to date
2008.02.10: Splendors of Brooklyn
2008.02.07: Composing and/or improvising, Caine is able
2008.02.05: Me in The Wire online
2008.02.05: Cultural convergence in America
2008.02.02: Jazz beyond jazz in Philly, for instance
2008.01.27: Chi-town beyond jazz
2008.01.23: Windy city, jazz response
2008.01.22: Refurbished hall, piano on-and-on
2008.01.14: International Jazz at IAJE
2008.01.08: Jazz Ed-Beyond-Jazz? in Toronto
2008.01.02: Peterson considered and reconsidered
2007.12.27: Oscar Peterson: Consolidator, conservator
2007.12.14: Glance back: J-B-J 2007 events
2007.12.13: 2007 favorites/gift ideas
2007.11.30: Tenacious esprit
2007.11.18: Applause for AACM in New York
2007.11.15: Spitzer bows re online sales tax
2007.11.13: NY state chokes "Associates" income trickle
2007.11.11: Surviving the Warhol Economy
2007.10.29: Confession: Deaf to Gospel
2007.10.23: Guitars and jazz tradition, popularism, innovation
2007.10.14: Singers of the songs
2007.10.13: Herbie enriches Joni
2007.10.09: Monk at 90, Monk Forever
2007.10.08: NEA Jazz Masters -- Who's Tom McIntosh?
2007.10.01: Internat'l jazz journalists convene, talk, listen (eat, drink, argue, make merry)
2007.09.18: Intern'l jazz journalists convene in U.S. -- a first
2007.09.11: Joe Zawinul at 65, The Wire
2007.09.11: Joe Zawinul, in a soundful way
2007.09.09: Improv on the Speed River
2007.09.04: Jazz on the run
2007.09.04: Jazz Festivals
2007.08.16: Giving Max Roach, the drummer, some
2007.08.14: Mingus Among Us
2007.08.14: Not for Wimps
2007.08.14: ArtistShare Delivers for Maria Schneider
2007.08.09: Mr. Sensitive befouls paradise
2007.08.08: Realities of the profession (writing), part 1
2007.08.06: Miles way beyond, and raw
2007.08.05: Cubist-jazz photo portraits
2007.08.04: Echoes of Sudan and the '60s, free in New York parks
2007.07.20: Delta Blues on the Hudson
2007.07.18: Americana, cello solo and string trio varieties
2007.07.18: Diversions, tangents, expeditions
2007.07.17: Jazz Beyond Jazz
2007.07.16: #jazzlives
2007.07.15: Miles Ornette Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz
2007.07.10:
2007.07.08: Howard Mandel
2007.07.06: Contact me
2007.07.01: The Makers of Jazz Beyond Jazz

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