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Jazz above and beyond established conventions of jazz in and around NYC last month was super\u00c2\u00a0abundant — and I’m going to miss a lot about this scene when I move base of operations to Chicago in mid-July. In the past 30 days I heard: \u00c2\u00a0The Eric Dolphy Freedom of Sound 2-day conference\/concerts at Montclair State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-qz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3074,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2023\/04\/36-jazz-heroes-in-32-us-cities-and-there-are-many-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":0},"title":"36 Jazz Heroes in 32 US cities – and there are many more","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"April 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Jazz Journalists Association announces the 2023 Jazz Heroes -- \"activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz,\" formerly the A Team -- emphasizing as it has annually since 2001 that jazz is culture that comes from the ground up, by individuals crossing all demographic categories, working frequently with others\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "main"","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-heroes-collage-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-heroes-collage-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-heroes-collage-1-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-heroes-collage-1-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-heroes-collage-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-heroes-collage-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/06\/happy_and_sad_news_updates.html","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":1},"title":"Happy and sad news updates","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"June 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Jazz Beyond Jazz was named Blog of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association at the Jazz Awards on Tuesday -- and Tina Marsh, driving force of Austin creative music, died that day, too.I'm immersed in follow-up on both these and related issues, but details and new posts are guaranteed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "main"","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"EnidFarberFoto_20090616_dsc_6217.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/EnidFarberFoto_20090616_dsc_6217.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/EnidFarberFoto_20090616_dsc_6217.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/EnidFarberFoto_20090616_dsc_6217.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/EnidFarberFoto_20090616_dsc_6217.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":734,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/01\/arts-presenters-jazzers-journalists-included-kick-of-12-in-nyc.html","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":2},"title":"Arts presenters – jazzers, journalists included – kick of ’12 in NYC","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"January 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The New Year starts bang! with performing arts presenters, artists and the journalists who cover them convening -- \u00c2\u00a0GlobalFest\u00c2\u00a0world music and \u00c2\u00a0Winter Jazzfest\u00c2\u00a0musicians' showcases -- the\u00c2\u00a0NEA Jazz Masters\u00c2\u00a0f\u00c3\u00aate\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0and shortly thereafter the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Chamber Music America conference,\u00c2\u00a0all in NYC. 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