Monthly Archives: May 2013

Delivering great art to Pittsburgh audiences

Some of the most rewarding in a series of oral history interviews I did on Brooklyn’s rich jazz history, specifically concerning the historic Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods, were with the good folks associated with the legendary East, a peerless Afrocentric venue of … Continue reading

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Charles Lloyd & Jack DeJohnette forever entwined

Back in 1968 in my Freshman year at Kent State, when I was basically getting my feet wet in this music we call jazz, I was encouraged by a good friend to check out a concert on the campus of … Continue reading

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Lost Jazz Shrines Series 2013

For the past dozen years I’ve been curating a Spring series at Tribeca Performing Arts Center that celebrates historic, now-lost jazz venues around Manhattan. This Spring our focus lands on the legendary Birdland. We’ve viewing Birdland through the prism of … Continue reading

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Are you hip to the Pace Report?

No hidden agendas here; taking particular interest and pride in younger African Americans who are working in jazz in entrepreneurial pursuits, last January at the NEA Jazz Masters awards program at Dizzy’s, at the pre-show media event, I met Brian … Continue reading

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A refreshing new voice: Cecile McLorin Salvant

Being a jazz concert and festival presenter, radio programmer, and journalist I am the fortunate recipient of all manner of new and recent CD releases and digital downloads from artists, spouses, publicists, labels and friends. That phenomenon has increased exponentially … Continue reading

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