From the JJA's March 26, 2023 online Book Bash, Bay Area-based radio show host and educator Brad Stone, member of the JJA's Book Committee, speaks with authors of two books nominated for 2023 Jazz Awards -- 

• Philip Watson of Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist who Changed the Sound of American Music
• Kenny Werner, pianist and author of Becoming the Instrument: Lessons on Self-Master from Music to Life --

introduced by Howard Mandel, president of the Jazz Journalists Association.

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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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Host Rick Mitchell discusses Jazz Polls with journalists Geoffrey Himes and Tom Hull.

Geoffrey Himes:  https://codacollection.co/authors/geoffrey-himes
Tom Hull: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hull_(critic)

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In the first of a series of conversations with journalists covering jazz, host Andrew Gilbert talks with Chicago writer Hannah Edgar, who contributes to the Chicago Tribune as part of a program funded by the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism. Edgar also writes for the Chicago Reader.

Hannah Edgar: https://hannah-edgar.com/
Andrew Gilbert: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.gilbert.319

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Host Rick Mitchell talks with jazz journalists Eugene Holley Jr. and Aaron Cohen on the subject of white critics writing about black music, an issue that dates back to birth of jazz.

Eugene Holley Jr.: https://muckrack.com/eugene-holley-jr/articles
Aaron Cohen: https://muckrack.com/aaron-cohen-5

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"Free jazz" as presented in a dozen films collected and presented by the Criterion Channel incorporate unusual ways of telling unusual musical stories, including portraits of Alice Coltrane and Milford Graves; Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Archie Shepp and Paul Bley in Imagine the Sound, and evocative experimental films such as Dream City and Promises: Through Congress. Panelists Kevin Whitehead (author of Play The Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross), Gretchen Carlson (author of Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz), and Don Palmer (arts journalist, former grant officer for New York State Council on the Arts) discuss these films and others with host Howard Mandel, JJA president, in the second of a two-part podcast.

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Are films about "free jazz," featured in a collection on the Criterion Channel, a genre -- and if so, what are their common traits? Panelists Kevin Whitehead (author of Play The Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross), Gretchen Carlson (author of Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz), and Don Palmer (arts journalist, former grant officer for New York State Council on the Arts) explore Space Is the Place, Les Stances á Sophie, Ornette: Made in America, The Cry of Jazz and others with host Howard Mandel, JJA president, in the first of a two-part podcast.

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Jason Miles discusses his book The Extraordinary Journey of Jason Miles: A musical biography with host Susan Brink.  Miles, a Grammy award winning producer, keyboardist, composer, arranger and synthesist has worked with the best: Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller (who wrote the introduction), Mike and Randy Brecker, the list goes on.

https://www.jasonmilesmusic.com/

Amazon link to book: https://a.co/d/gkF2WaR

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Host Susan Brink speaks with Aidan Levy, author of the first comprehensive biography of the legendary musician and composer Sonny Rollins. 

"Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins" at 784 pages is comprehensive, but very readable.  To learn more about Aidan Levy or purchase the book:
 https://aidan-levy.com/
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/aidan-levy/saxophone-colossus/9780306902796/

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Host Susan Brink speaks with author Rick Lopez, who has just self published "The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work In Progress".  With 768 pages and over 500 illustrations, this comprehensive and meticulously researched sessionography/biography was 25 years in the making.

To purchase the book: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sam-rivers-sessionography

Sam River's obituary, written by Nate Chinen, in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/music/sam-rivers-jazz-musician-dies-at-88.html

Arts for Art is hosting Studio Rivbea Revisited 2023, January 4 - 8, 2023 in New York City.  This will be both live and streamed.  For information/tickets : https://www.artsforart.org/rivbea.html

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