Author Archives: The Independent Ear

Many thanks to the voters in the annual Jazz Journalism Awards for nominating Willard Jenkins for a Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism; I’m deeply honored by this nominationNOMINEES FOR JAZZ JOURNALISM AWARDS 29) LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN JAZZ JOURNALISM Ted Panken … Continue reading →

Multiple poll-winning flutist (currently nominated in the Flute category of the Jazz Journalists Association annual poll) Nicole Mitchell has a new recording “Aquarius” on the Delmark label, with a fairly new ensemble she calls Ice Crystals. Much about this new … Continue reading →

Last weekend, on the occasion of the Dave Brubeck Institute’s annual festival, at the invite of the exceedingly pleasant and humble Brubeck executive director Simon Rowe, I had the distinct pleasure of making a site visit to their Stockton, CA … Continue reading →

Saxophonist Tim Warfield has big ideas about developing a very particular kind of jazz presenter circuit; ideas which have likely been germinating ever since he took on a producer role for the annual Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz festival in … Continue reading →

This past Wednesday evening (March 6) on my weekly radio program Ancient/Future, on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC metro region (streaming live at www.wpfw.org; where you may also listen to an archived copy of that program) I decided … Continue reading →