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June 9, 2005

...Doug Ramsey

Doug lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, Cleveland and Washington, DC. His writing about jazz has paralleled his life in journalism...
...He is the author of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond and Jazz Matters:Reflections on the Music and Some of its Makers. He is a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for writing about the music of Bill Evans. He has contributed to Jazz Times since 1975 and, before that, wrote regularly for Down Beat. He was a contributing editor of Texas Monthly for twenty-five years and wrote a jazz column for The Dallas Morning News. His articles, reviews and op-ed pieces on music and on free press and First Amendment issues have appeared in The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, and Congressional Quarterly, among other publications. Doug is the co-editor (With Dale Shaps) of Journalism Ethics: Why Change? Under the American Speakers program of the United States Information Agency (when there was a U.S.I.A.), he lectured in Germany and Eastern Europe on jazz and on the role of a free press in a democracy. As senior vice president of FACS (Foundation for American Communications), he educated hundreds of professional journalists about analytical coverage of issues. He describes himself as an avocational trumpeter who sometimes plays for money.

Posted by mclennan at June 9, 2005 1:53 PM

COMMENTS

A couple of my earlier e-mails may have gone astray. One noted pride in having shephered the American College Jazz Festival with Jimmy Lyons. I noted with pride John Clayton's smarts when he beguiled a Kennedy Center audience while repairing a broken bass string (1973). I also touted Gary Hobbs as the best cymbalist I've ever encountered and wondered what happened to him. Amazed to see he and Clayton performed at the Centrum Port Townsend jazz festival. Talk about synchronicity.

Posted by: Bob Walsh at August 1, 2005 5:38 PM



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