Hungary

Spring break with Budapest jazz, photos

I went to Budapest for spring break — to introduce a photo exhibit by my Transylvanian-bornÂ friend Â SÃ¡nta IstvÃ¡n Csaba and help jury theÂ 10th annual MÃ¼pa Budapest Jazz Showcase/Talent Exchange,Â held in the modernist musemÂ and multi-theater complex on the east bank of the icy Danube Feb 3 – 5. As I wrote in my Â DownBeat article, the […]

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…