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The November issue<\/a> of JazzTimes<\/span> magazine is the first created (not just published) under the imprimatur of Madavor Media<\/a>, LLC imprint, and the periodical looks very much the same as before its hiatus last spring. Editors Lee Mergener<\/span> and Evan Haga<\/span> remain, columnists Nat Hentoff<\/span> and Nate Chinen<\/span> are present, most if not all recent editorial contributors remain on the masthead and features — drumming being the issue’s loose theme — are by regulars, though Fernando Gonz\u00c3\u00a1lez<\/span>, former editor of rival Jazziz<\/a>, came onboard to write the story on Guggenheim Foundation and MacArthur fellow Miguel Zen\u00c3\u00b3n<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThis four-color issue is 82 pages long, with more than 16 pages of ads from record and equipment companies, jazz cruises and festivals, and jazz ed institutions and the good folks at North Coast Brewing Company<\/span><\/a>, who recently issued a cd by the Brother Thelonious Quintet<\/a> with alumni of the Monk Institute’s performance program — 100% of the cd’s sales proceeds going back to that program for international jazz education.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The cover story about upbeat and creative drummer Matt Wilson<\/span> is by Chinen (who blogs at The Gig and reviews for the New York Times); Dr. Bruce H. Klauber <\/span>examines the “30-year rivalry between Gene Krupa<\/span> and Buddy Rich<\/span>; there are short pieces on percussionists Andrewy Cyrille, Dan Weiss, Justin Faulkner<\/span> and Tyshawn Sorey<\/span>, bassist Linda Oh<\/span> and singer Dee Alexander<\/span>; a listening test for drummer Jimmy Cobb<\/span>, columns on new gear and digital transferring of vinyl to mp3 files, and plentiful record reviews.<\/div>\n
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It’s not a breakthrough — JazzTimes is still JazzTimes — but neither is it any sort of compromise. Madavor Media’s one obvious new step is to introduce an online version<\/a>, free to print subscribers and $20 per year all by itself. So welcome back to life, JT, and may the mag henceforth thrive. (Frequent readers of this blog may know I’m a senior contributor to Down Beat<\/a>, but I’ve written for JazzTimes, too.)<\/div>\n
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