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The New York City Jazz Record. The New York City Jazz Record is a monthly New York City based publication that includes features, reviews and concert announcements regarding jazz music. It is available in print form (black and white hardcopy) as well as online at www.nycjazzrecord.com (in full color). It was launched in May 2002 by co-founders ...
Ben Ratliff (born 1968 in New York City) is an American journalist, music critic and author. Ratliff is the son of an English mother and an American father, growing up in London and in Rockland County, New York. From 1996 to 2016, he wrote about pop music and jazz for The New York Times. He is the author of four books: Every Song Ever: Twenty ...
Benny Golson (January 25, 1929 – September 21, 2024) was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson was known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet ...
Born and raised in Oakland, California, Akinmusire was a member of the Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble, where he caught the attention of saxophonist Steve Coleman who was visiting the school to lead a workshop. [3][4] Coleman hired him as a member of his Five Elements band for a European tour. [5] Akinmusire was also a member of the Monterey ...
Website. www.jazzwax.com. Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author of five books and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music, the arts and celebrities. In 2007, he founded JazzWax, a leading daily jazz blog [1] that has won three Jazz Journalists Association "Blog of the Year" awards.
She also frequently attended Litchfield Jazz Camp, which she attributes to her early interest in jazz. [5] [6] [7] Zuraitis studied classical voice at New York University. After a brief period performing opera professionally after graduation, she moved back to New York City to pursue songwriting and jazz in 2009. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Williams, beginning in the early 1950s, became a prolific jazz critic, contributing articles to The Saturday Review, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Down Beat, and The Jazz Review, which he founded in November 1958 with Nat Hentoff, which often featured contributions by jazz musicians, including Gunther Schuller, Dick Katz, and Cecil ...
Her writing was published in Cosmopolitan, Newsday, New York, and the O. Henry Award Prize Stories. [ 4 ] Stereo Review magazine named How Do You Keep the Music Playing (1985) as the album of the year, while critic Leonard Feather named it the vocal album of the year.