{"id":286,"date":"2010-01-13T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/01\/jazz_journalists_confer_with_a\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:22","slug":"jazz_journalists_confer_with_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/01\/jazz_journalists_confer_with_a.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz journalists confer with APAP, NEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\">Jazz Journalists Association<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/jazzjournalists.org\/jja-events\/ny-jan-2010-conference\/\">five days of programming<\/a> in coordination with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apapconference.org\/\">Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.gov\/national\/jazz\/index.html\">Nat&#8217;l Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters<\/a> events was a raging success on several fronts. Activities included the educational, informational, musical, productive and social. Overall, the JJA conference counted approximately 100 participants.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 20px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; background-repeat: repeat-y; \">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">In three town hall sessions held at the Sheraton New York Hotel, some 50 veteran and emerging writers, photographers, broadcasters and webcasters from the U.S. and Canada &#8212; as well as publicists, musicians, record producers, educators, presenters and non-profit funders, too &#8212; engaged in serious discussion about challenging issues;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">Francesco Malatesta of Mediakite Training Center, a production services firm, conducted a hands-on workshop about shooting video for the web;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">Jazz journalists were out in force at the two-night Winter Jazzfest and various special gigs around town: big fun, as reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/01\/1st_jazz_beyond_weekend_2010.html\">earlier<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">Paul Blair offered a delightful (if chilly) walking tour of jazz-related Harlem landmarks;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">JA Kawell of Ozmotic Media gave an in-depth workshop at the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music program&#8217;s performance space on technical basics in starting a blog and building readership;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">The National Endowment for the Arts and the NEA&#8217;s Journalism Institutes hosted a luncheon at which Farah Jasmine Griffin of Columbia University&#8217;s Center for Jazz Studies, author and journalist Bob Blumenthal, and Wall Street Journal Arts and Leisure editor Eric Gibson spoke on jazz journalism&#8217;s past, present and future, moderated by Andras Szanto, former director of the National Arts Journalism Program.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">JJA members and unaffiliated colleagues from the UK and France besides North America made significant points and upheld the value of media in APAP forums, connecting with other organizations as well as individual presenters to suggest diverse initiatives we can do together.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; \">Attendees partied heartily at Faces &amp; Names Bar and Lounge &#8212; taking the occasion to sign get-well\/we love you cards for Ypsilanti broadcaster Linda Yohn, recovering from recent surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our town hall sessions were videotaped for archival purposes. A web-available version of the blog workshop is being prepared for eventual posting. The NEA&#8217;s luncheon discussion was taped by the NEA, and may be posted. Details tba.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Among those present at the JJA&#8217;s sessions &#8220;Meet the Jazz Journalists,&#8221; &#8220;The Jazz Journalist&#8217;s Job Now,&#8221; and &#8220;Getting Jazz News Out&#8221; (moderated, respectively, by myself, James Hale, and David Hajdu) the workshops and luncheon were:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>David Adler, Sheila Anderson, Bridget Arnwine, Elise Axelrad, Nancy Barrell, Robert Baird, Paul Blair, Larry Blumenfeld, Jason Byrne, Joan Anton Cararach, Gwen Calvier, Sharonne Cohen, Barbara Connelly, Hui Cox, Peter Crimini, Claire Daly, Sara Donnelly, Kent Devereaux, Dan Doyle, Alex Duthil, Yvonne Ervin, Enid Farber, Will Friedwald, Charlie Gans, Melvin Gibbs, Gary Giddins, Lois Gilbert, John Gilbreath, Mike Gomez, Kirpal Gordon, David Hajdu, James Hale, Norm Harris, Pat Harris, John Edward Hasse, Gary Heidt, Andrey Henkin, Tad Hendrickson, Geoffrey Himes, Darren Hoffman, Antje Huebner, Victoria Hutter, Celia Ipiotis, Cicily Janus, Patrick Jarenwattananon, Willard Jenkins, Martin Johnson, Ashley Kahn, Dan Kassell, Nancy Kazerman, Kathryn King, Elzy Kolb, Randy Klein, Joel Levin, Sean Lorre, Don Lucoff, Eugene Marlow, Nora McCarthy, Myra Melford, Gordon Marshall, Greg Masters, John Murph, Jared Negley, Lyn Orman, Dan Ouellette, Ted Panken, Tina Pelikan, Jon Poses, Lenore Raphael, Michael Ricci, Alex Rodriguez, Seth Rothstein, Mitch Seidel, Richard Seidel, Dawn Singh, Rick Skelly, Arnold Jay Smith, Greg Thomas, Scott Thompson, Peter Varshavsky, Jeanette Vuocolo, Yulin Wang, Alex Webb, Mike West, Adina Williams and Bridget Wilson. I won&#8217;t take time here to &nbsp;give their associations or &nbsp; link to their sites, but they&#8217;re all media professionals (plus a couple savvy musicians).&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large\">Jazz Journalists Association January 2010 NY Conference<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\">Special thanks to those who contributed time, talent, space and resources, especially<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artspresenters.org\/networking\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>APAP (Association of &nbsp;Performing Arts Centers)<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>National Endowment for the Arts<\/b><\/a><b> \/ <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/national\/aji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>NEA Arts Journalism Institutes<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediakite.com\/training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Mediakite Training Center<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>The New School Jazz and Contemporary Music<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facesandnames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Faces &amp; Names Bar and Lounge<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:info@ozmoticmedia.com\"><b>Ozmotic Media<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:ksmithpr@earthlink.net\"><b>Kim Smith Public Relations<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Huge thanks to all  those who participated in our Town Halls and workshops, notably including speakers Bob Blumenthal, Farah Jasmine Griffin and Eric Gibson, and session moderators David Hajdu, James Hale and Andras Szanto. <\/p>\n<p><b>Conference organizers\/JJA officers:<\/b>  Howard Mandel, Yvonne Ervin, Eugene Marlow and Arnold Jay Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The JJA might try this again. Meanwhile, ideas arose that ought to be followed-up on, and realized. Read it here first.<\/p>\n<\/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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz Journalists Association&#8216;s five days of programming in coordination with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference and Nat&#8217;l Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters events was a raging success on several fronts. Activities included the educational, informational, musical, productive and social. Overall, the JJA conference counted approximately 100 participants.<\/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":[642,626,194,645,643,62,644],"class_list":{"0":"post-286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-apap-conference","8":"tag-jazz-journalism-conference","9":"tag-jazz-journalists-association","10":"tag-mediakite-training-center","11":"tag-nea-arts-journalism-institute","12":"tag-nea-jazz-masters","13":"tag-ozmotic-media","14":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-4C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":283,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/01\/arts_presenters_meet_jazz_jour.html","url_meta":{"origin":286,"position":0},"title":"Arts Presenters meet Jazz Journalists","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"January 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Jazz Journalists Association has scheduled a multi-faceted professional conference for Jan 8 - 12 in NYC, concurrent with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters annual conference (which is producing a Special Focus on Jazz), the two-night multi-venue\u00a0Winter Jazzfest, one-night but multi-stage\u00a0globalFEST, and the Nat'l Endowment of the Arts's presentation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":363,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/01\/jazz_conventions_conferences.html","url_meta":{"origin":286,"position":1},"title":"Jazz conventions, conferences, celebrations, memorial Jan 6 &#8211; 11","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"January 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The jazz world convenes in two U.S. cities this weekend, as high school and college bands + directors gather at the JEN Conference in New Orleans, jazz presenters focus themselves at the APAP convention in New York City and jazz journalists get together on topics vital to better and continued\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":284,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/01\/1st_jazz_beyond_weekend_2010.html","url_meta":{"origin":286,"position":2},"title":"Jazz journalism &#038; beyond weekend","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"January 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jazz journalists conferenced in New York City last weekend as arts presenters, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters and musical showcases galore (including an audience-happy Winter Jazzfest and the debut of drummer Jack DeJohnette's hot new band) justified the very existence of the profession. 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