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Surprise: Birth and re-birth of jazz journalism outlets

Double-barrelled rare upbeat jazz news: The husband-wife team behind publicists Improvised Communications (plus a couple helpers) launch JazzDIY.com, an online “trade journal for jazz”

Jennifer Peabody, Associate Publisher, and Scott Menhinick, Editor/Publisher of JazzDIY.com

And a composer-improviser from Oregon saves

David Haney, composer, improviser, publisher Cadence magazine as of Jan 1 2012

Cadence magazine, founded in 1976, from demise.

Scott Menhinick and his wife Jennifer Peabody are doin’ it themselves and hoping to share information on jazz business with others, while pianist-composer-publisher David Haney is turning his talents to taking longtime low-tech Cadence online, with multi-media content. Best news yet to jazz journalists: the editors say they’ll pay.

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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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