{"id":2,"name":"Howard Mandel","url":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz","description":"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.\r\nMy 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. . .","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/author\/prez","slug":"prez","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb30d559f518c202af2b9ad809e1e43a42f135d72a779e97fc434ca751862d0a?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb30d559f518c202af2b9ad809e1e43a42f135d72a779e97fc434ca751862d0a?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb30d559f518c202af2b9ad809e1e43a42f135d72a779e97fc434ca751862d0a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fb30d559f518c202af2b9ad809e1e43a42f135d72a779e97fc434ca751862d0a?s=128&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":{"jetpack_donation_warning_dismissed":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}