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My friend Lee Hildebrand died in January 2025 at the age of 78. I have some words of remembrance. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Lee started out as a drummer. “He had a way of putting West Coast styling on a Chicago shuffle,” was how bassist Henry Oden described Lee’s playing. When music did not pan out for him financially, Lee turned to writing about music, his main focus for...


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Happy New Year, Jazz Journalists Association members and friends — please help us celebrate 2026 as the 41st anniversary of the founding  of our professional organization. Supporting the creation  and dissemination of high quality coverage of jazz in all its forms, and encouraging the growth of the jazz audience through innovative as well as traditional forms of medi...


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Hear Ye, Hear Ye — The jazz year has officially begun with activities like the Winter Jazz Fest in New York, covered by JJA members Paul Reynolds, Mike Shanley and David Adler, the Unity Festival and the Jazz Congress produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, written up for DownBeat by Michael J. West. Also running concurrently, the annual conference of Jazz Education Network (J...


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The end of the year closes fast: early deadlines to meet before the holidays, “Best Of” lists to compile, and of course, clearing the decks for the onrush of new albums, books, podcasts, concerts and club shows that start to rev up in January. There’s plenty to keep JJA members listening, reading — and producing new work.But as you’ll see, it’ll be hard to top the pace of activi...


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I was pleased to moderate an international panel of journalists on “From the Page to the Stage: Covering Jazz Across Borders” at Jazz-Con 2025, an innovative two-day online-only multi-event held in Sept. thanks to indefatigable producer Jerald Miller. “What’s it like covering jazz around the world? Editors and publishers from leading jazz publications discuss t...


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