{"id":282,"date":"2010-01-01T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/01\/tesser_on_top_10s\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:22","slug":"tesser_on_top_10s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/01\/tesser_on_top_10s.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesser on top 10s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-26698-Chicago-Jazz-Music-Examiner?showbio\">Neil Tesser<\/a> blogs about best of the year roundups on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-26698-Chicago-Jazz-Music-Examiner~y2009m12d29-The-year-in-jazz-Top-Ten-recordings-of-2009\">Chicago Music Examiner.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; and is added to the blogroll. A gifted writer and broadcaster, an incisive cultural critic, Neil has been a close colleague of mine starting in Chicago in the &#8217;70s (remember them? Most readers, maybe not). We&#8217;ve worked simultaneously for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/chicago\/Home\">Chicago Reader<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downbeat.com\/\">Down Beat<\/a>, among other publications, and&nbsp;WBEZ-FM when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121096843\">an NPR jazz station<\/a>, on&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagofestivals.net\/category\/city-of-chicago-festivals\/jazz-festival\">Chicago Jazz Festival <\/a>programming committee and even co-frontlined a Critics Band (both playing reeds, highlight of our set was a segue from &#8220;Pipeline&#8221; into &#8220;Afro Blue.&#8221; It&#8217;s good to have him in the blogosphere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And here&#8217;s hoping for a really <i>new<\/i> year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Tesser blogs about best of the year roundups on&nbsp;Chicago Music Examiner.com&nbsp;&#8212; and is added to the blogroll. A gifted writer and broadcaster, an incisive cultural critic, Neil has been a close colleague of mine starting in Chicago in the &#8217;70s (remember them? Most readers, maybe not). We&#8217;ve worked simultaneously for the Chicago Reader and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[625,305,624],"class_list":{"0":"post-282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-chicago-music-examiner-com","8":"tag-down-beat","9":"tag-neil-tesser","10":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-4y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2007\/07\/miles_ornette_cecil_jazz_beyon.html","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":0},"title":"Jazz Beyond Jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"July 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"about my new book I'll be speaking about the legacy of Billy Strayhorn on The Barber Shop Show hosted by Richard Steele, live from Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood at noon Friday Nov 6 2015 (rebroadcast 3 pm Sunday) on WBEZ ChicagoPublicMedia.org. 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