From the JJA's March 26 2023 online Book Bash, Bob Blumenthal, a dean of the field, board member and chair of the JJA's Book Committee, moderates a panel of authors of books nominated for 2023 JJA Jazz Awards:

• Richard Koloda, author of Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler; https://www.freejazzblog.org/2023/04/richard-koloda-holy-ghost-life-death-of.html
• Monika Herzig and James Reddan, editors of the Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Jazz-and-Gender/Reddan-Herzig-Kahr/p/book/9780367534141
• Michael Wolff, On That Note: A Memoir of Jazz, Tics and Survival https://www.amazon.com/That-Note-Memoir-Jazz-Survival/dp/195647031X

Introduced by Howard Mandel, president of the Jazz Journalists Association

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