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	<title type="text">Jazz Journalists Association News</title>
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	<updated>2026-11-02T19:59:56Z</updated>

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			<name>Emily Steinhilber</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fest views: Earshot Jazz, Seattle, Oct 1- 25]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14666</id>
		<updated>2026-11-02T19:59:56Z</updated>
		<published>2026-11-02T19:54:17Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Corey Fonville" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Earshot Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Eugenie Jones" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="John Gilbreath" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kate Olson KO Quartet" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Morgan Burrs" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sidney Hauser" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Pushing Pins: Like it or not, early exposure sticks &#8212; red Mary Janes and all At Earshot Jazz&#8217;s annual festival kickoff on October 1, Eugenie Jones stood inside the University of Washington&#8217;s Jacob Lawrence Gallery accepting the John Gilbreath Service Excellence Award for her work keeping jazz alive. She thanked the people whose lives inevitably become entangled in such undertakings: the sleepless nights, missed workouts, marketing, friends and family who absorb the labor surrounding a jazz festival whether or not their names ever appear on a program. Then she thanked her children. She acknowledged, with the sort of laugh that]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[THE HARVEST MOON CAME AND WENT, WHILE JJA MEMBERS SHINE ON&#8230;]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14646</id>
		<updated>2026-11-01T18:05:04Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-30T18:21:40Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="AJS Jazz Journalism Seminars" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="ALICE HILL" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chuck Obuchowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Claudie Mabry" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="David Haney" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dee Dee McNeil" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Doug Hall" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="DownBeat" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emily Springer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Geoffrey Himes" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Gregory Golub" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Hilary Seabrook" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jane Ira Bloom" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jason Miles" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Foundation of America" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazzwise" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jesse Chuy Varela" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="john chacona" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kyra Cioffi" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Luciano Rossetti" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Matty Bannond" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Michael J. West" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nate Chinen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul de Barros" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sanford Josephson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Braunginn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steven Sussman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Thierry De Clemensat" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The good jazz news keeps comin&#8217;&#8230; since January, February, June and July! See the recently gathered Fest Report from Romania on JJA News, and read all about the fresh ARNOLD JAY SMITH JAZZ JOURNALISM SEMINARS beginning in 2027, with support from the Jazz Foundation of America. The JJA’s Zoom launch party and information session about the inaugural season of JJA’s Arnold Jay Smith Intergenerational Professional Development Fellowships on Oct. 24 drew some 40 veteran and emerging jazz journalists to learn about the spring 2027 series of discussions to be led by well-known media activists for a select coterie of emerging]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Virgil Mihaiu</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fest report: Jazz persists &#8212; at Bran Castle, Romania Aug 28 &#8211; 30]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14598</id>
		<updated>2026-11-02T19:57:38Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-28T18:15:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bill Bruford" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emma Rawicz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jon Durant" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Leonardo Pavkovic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lino Capra Vaccina" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Michael Mrassner" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Soft Machine" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Stephen Thelen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The Boxhead Ensemble" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Braving turbulent times, the Bran Castle Jazz Festival successfully staged its 13th edition. This spectacular medieval building is situated in Romania’s Transylvanian Alps area, and was one of the favorite residences of Queen Marie of Romania (1875–1938), daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. The castle’s new General Manager, Brian King, an American national — working closely with jazzologist  Paul Tutungiu, seasoned marketing expert Alex Prișcu, and their efficient organizing team — laid the groundwork to ensure the event maintained a high artistic standard. Valuable support was also provided by sponsors ING, the]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[For striving jazz journalists: A professional development series with arts media stars. Apply to participate now!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14558</id>
		<updated>2026-10-25T18:22:52Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-13T16:46:47Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Arnold Jay Smith Intergenerational Professional Development Seminars" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ashley Kahn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bill Milikowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Frank Alkyer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Foundation of America" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lydia Liebman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mark Ruffin" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Michael Jackson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Michelle Merceer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nate Chinen" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The JJA&#8217;s Zoom launch party and information session about the inaugural season of JJA&#8217;s Arnold Jay Smith Intergenerational Professional Development Fellowships on Oct. 24 drew some 40 veteran and emerging jazz journalists to learn about the spring 2027 series of discussions to be led by well-know media activists for a select coterie of emerging professionals. Highlight of the Zoom launch was opening of the AJS Jazz Journalism Seminars application. Here&#8217;s a comprehensive description of the seminar/fellowship program. As introduced by JJA board member Terri Hinte, moderated by Neil Tesser and Howard Mandel, the upcoming seminar session leaders Frank Alkyer (just-stepped-back]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Lew Shaw</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[In advance: Sun Valley Jazz and Music Festival, Sun Valley, Idaho, Oct 15 -18]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14429</id>
		<updated>2026-10-28T18:15:56Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-11T21:20:53Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Carol Loehr" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jeff Loehr" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lew Shaw" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Precious Byrd" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sun Valley Idaho" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sun Valley Jazz and Music Fest" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The Parnells" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The website for the 37th Sun Valley Jazz and Festival describes the annual event in the Idaho Rockies as a vibrant celebration of music. It boasts, not immodestly, &#8220;Over the years, the Festival has been a dynamic and intimate gathering where music lovers and artists alike come together to celebrate the joy of jazz while continuing a cherished tradition that has thrived for over three decades in a world-class resort area.&#8221; Sun Valley itself is a small community &#8212; 2020 census figures report under 2000 people live there &#8212; near the city of Ketchum in south-central Idaho. The area, developed]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Virgil Mihaiu</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fests &#8211; Nišville Jazz Festival, August 13 &#8211; 16, Niš, Serbia and Conference on Aesthetics of Music]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14435</id>
		<updated>2026-10-13T16:47:44Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-03T22:55:57Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Conference on the Aesthetics of Music" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Denis Beganovic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nis" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nisville Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paquito D&#039; Rivera" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pepe Rivero" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sebastian Laverde" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Niš is the third largest city in Serbia (after Belgrade and Novi Sad). At the end of the 3rd century AD, Constantine the Great, founder of the Byzantine metropolis Constantinople, was born here. Currently, one of the main cultural attractions of the city is the Nišville Jazz Festival (a name that alludes to USA’s Nashville). It boasts of having the largest attendance of any festival in Europe. In 2026 it claimed to have some 200,000 visitors. This mega-event reached now the 32nd edition. Its general director, Ivan Blagoevic, is committed to the feast&#8217;s declared eclectic character, somewhat in the wake]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[La-di-da-di-da-di-dum, &#8217;tis autumn&#8230; and JJA members are in harmony!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14490</id>
		<updated>2026-10-25T12:08:42Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-27T12:22:03Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bob Blumenthal" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chicago Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chuck Obuchowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Con Chapman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Detroit Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Doug Hall" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emily Steinhilber" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fiona Ross" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Geoffrey Himes" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Hilary Seabrook" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jane Ira Bloom" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Foundation of America" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jesse Chuy Varela" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="JJA News" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="john chacona" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kelly Korzun" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Leslie Lynnton Fuller" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Linda Yohn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Luciano Rossetti" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Matty Bannond" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Molly Motherwell" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nat King Cole" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Neil Tesser" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rayna Mathis" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rick Mitchell" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rob Shepherd" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sanford Josephson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sid Gribetz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sonny Rollins" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Braunginn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Cerra" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Syd Schwartz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Thierry De Clemensat" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wilbert Sostre" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wildstyle Paschall" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="William P. Gottlieb" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Yuki Kimura" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ask the birds, the trees, and Old Father Time, JJA member activities continue to climb! A new record of members&#8217; updates came into JJA central this month, confirming that a timeless passion for jazz and journalism in every genre plays on, to keep this music alive for us today and for future generations. Encore! In addition to September updates, check out the recent reportage on Festivals across the nation and around the globe, on JJA News! Matty Bannond reported from Hayden Chisholm’s “To Bee Ritual” in Cologne for Free Jazz Collective during September and also wrote about a live performance]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Kelly Korzun</name>
					</author>

		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fest reports: Chicago, re-viewed]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14439</id>
		<updated>2026-10-11T21:21:43Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-25T00:45:34Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chicago Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="DCASE" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Duke Ellington songbook" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Good Vibes band" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Isaiah Collier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Institute of Chicago" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Joel Ross" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="John Coltrane centennial" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jonathan Woods" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kelly Korzun" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kind of Blue REVISITED" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lauren Deutsch" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="M.E.B." /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Miles Davis centennial" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Miles Electric Band" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Millennium Park" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul Marinaro" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pritzker Pavillion" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Tangible Sound" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As we all were celebrating yet another remarkable edition of Chicago Jazz Festival, continuing a tradition since 1979, I found myself looking at the event through the lens of alternate timelines, putting time in perspective and zooming in and out on the journey this thing called jazz continues taking us on.&#160; What was that first Chicago Jazz Festival like? An Ellington Night, a Coltrane Night, and five more programs assisting a week-long celebration of music at Grant Park. Today, 47 festival editions later, the program in Millennium Park looks ironically familiar. As Paul Marinaro is delivering a selection of Ellington’s]]></summary>

		
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Emily Steinhilber</name>
					</author>

		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fest Notes, Seattle: Jackson Street and Bumbershoot]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14365</id>
		<updated>2026-10-04T18:25:26Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-22T16:25:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bumbershoot" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="D&#039;Arron Trio" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emily Steinhilber" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Eugenie Jones" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Heather Ward" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jackson Street Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Joe Brazil" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Joe Brazil Legacy Tribute Band" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Julian Priester" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Oscar Holden" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Seattle festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Takuya Nakamura" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Jackson Street Jazz Festival, September 12-13, 2026 — Today&#8217;s players in the historic music district Before Seattle became internationally associated with any genre of music, South Jackson Street had already established the city as an important jazz town.&#160;From the late 1930s into the early 1950s, clubs stretched along a multiracial corridor connecting what are now the Chinatown-International District and and Central District, neighborhoods shaped in part by the racial restrictions that limited where Black and Asian residents could live and do business. The after-hours scene nurtured musicians including Ernestine Anderson and Quincy Jones, welcomed a young Ray Charles, and filled]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[JFA $$ + JJA know-how = AJS x 5! For intergenerational pro-development]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14321</id>
		<updated>2026-09-25T16:29:38Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-19T17:58:01Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Arnold Jay Smith" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Arnold Jaz Smith Jazz Journalism Seminars" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Foundation of America" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) and the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) have announced a new five-year partnership to create the Arnold Jay Smith Jazz Journalism Seminars, an intergenerational professional development program. The seminars honor the memory of Arnold Jay Smith (1934–2022), the Brooklyn-based jazz writer, publicist and educator who was both a co-founder of the Jazz Journalists Association and a benefactor of the Jazz Foundation of America. Funded through a bequest by Smith’s estate, the JFA will provide the JJA with $25,000 annually for five years, a total commitment of $125,000, to help establish and sustain the program. The]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Natalia Rikker</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fest Notes: Chelyabinsk . . .]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14367</id>
		<updated>2026-09-22T16:41:10Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-18T17:00:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chelyabinsk" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Cyril Moshkow" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Igor Bourco" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kirov Street" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Natalia Rikker" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Uralskiy Dixieland" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s Ural Jazz Festival Marks a Quarter Century On the last Saturday of August, the pedestrian stretch of Kirov Street in Chelyabinsk — an industrial city in the southern Ural Mountains, roughly 1,000 miles east of Moscow — fills with trumpets, trombones, drums, percussion and a crowd that clearly doesn&#8217;t mind the noise. Local jazz bands lead a parade past a monument to Soviet-era tank volunteers, with dozens of photographers in tow, and hundreds of local residents falling in step behind them. By evening, the same street hosts an open-air “Jazz Marathon” running until 10 p.m., free for anyone who]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Field clips &#8212; Chicago Jazz Fest, 9/4-6]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14337</id>
		<updated>2026-09-18T17:02:10Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-08T18:52:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="2026 Chicago Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bill Charlap" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dee Alexander" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dee Dee Bridgewater" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emma Dayhuff" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Isaiah Collier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Joel Ross" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kelly Korzun" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Luciano Antonio" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Miles Electric Band MEB" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Millenium Park" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Patricia Brennan" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul Marinaro" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pritzker Pavilion" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Robert Glasper" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Robert Irving III" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Tatsu Aoki" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vince Wilburn" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Click on links for front-row video excerpts &#8212; text adapted from Chicagao Jazz Fest program book. DAY 1 &#8212; Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center: In Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park: DAY 2 &#8212; Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park: DAY 3 &#8212; Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park: DAY 4 &#8211; Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park:]]></summary>

		
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