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	<title type="text">Jazz Journalists Association News</title>
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	<updated>2026-08-05T19:34:03Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ron Scott honored with American Book Award]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14130</id>
		<updated>2026-08-05T16:12:06Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-05T16:12:05Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="American Book Award" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Before Columbus Foundation" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ron Scott" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Walter and Lilian Lowenfels Award for Criticism" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[JJA member Ron Scott, writer for New York Amsterdam News and a frequent presenter of NYC and Brooklyn Jazz Hero Awards, has himself being honored with the Walter and Lilian Lowenfels Award for Criticism by the Before Columbus Foundation, which cites its goals as being &#8220;to provide recognition and a wider audience for the wealth of cultural and ethnic diversity that constitutes American writing.&#8221; Scott joins 19 other recipients of these 47th annual American Book Awards, including Matt Shipp for his book Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings (Autonomedia), which has also won a JJA 2026 Book of the]]></summary>

		
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			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Summertime and the livin&#8217; is&#8230; jazzy!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14068</id>
		<updated>2026-08-04T10:41:36Z</updated>
		<published>2026-07-26T16:25:22Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bill Milkowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bob Blumenthal" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="C. Andrew Hovan" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Con Chapman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Danica Pantovic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="David Haney" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Deborah Eastwood" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Doug Hall" /><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="Jeff Schwartz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Katchie Cartwright" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kelly Korzun" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kenneth K. Martinez Burgmaier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Leslie Lynnton Fuller" /><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="Natalia Rikker" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Patrick Hinely" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rebecca Klobucher" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Richard Kamins" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Stephanie Stein Crease" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Bowie" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Brauginn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Cerra" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wildstyle Paschall" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Yuki Kimura" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[JJA Members spread their wings to share good news from around the world. Festival Field Reports continue cycling on JJA News with reportage coming in from NN North Sea to shining sea! All this while journalistic jam sessions continue at JJA&#8217;s Award-winning podcast, The Buzz: https://thebuzzthejjapodcast.buzzsprout.com Our newest (professional and voting level) members are in step: Steve Bowie, host, writer, researcher and producer of the podcast &#8220;Ellington Reflections&#8221; is also author of the 2025 book, Concerto for Cootie, the Life and Times of Cootie Williams. Bowie presented papers on Williams and Kenny Burrell for conferences held by the Duke Ellington]]></summary>

		
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			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Festival Summer 2026 &#8211; Field Reports]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13869</id>
		<updated>2026-08-05T19:34:03Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-25T21:27:08Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Alden Hellmouth" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Artclhipel Orchestra" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Billy Branch" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Cecile McClorin lavant" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Cemila Meza" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Charles Lloyd" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chicago Blues Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Christian McBride" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Danica Pantovic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Edmonds Jazz Walk" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emily Seinhilber" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Festival International de Jazz de Montreal" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fred Hersch" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Greg Bell" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Isaiah Collier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jessse Shilderink" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jules Buckley" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Julia Hulsmann" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kamasi Washington" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Marcus Miller" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Metropole Orkest" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mohini Dey" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="MOJO Concerts" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Monk Rowe" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Montenegro Jazz Day" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Montreux jazz festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="North Sea Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pat Metheny" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Patricia Brennan" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul Acket" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pierre Courbois" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Questlove" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ravi Coltrane" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rebecca Klobucher" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="RH Factor" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rochester International Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ruth Griggs" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sharonne Cohen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Snarky Puppy" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Syracuse Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Terence Blanchard" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Tomeka Reid" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Tomoki Sanders" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Virgil Mihaiu" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[More Festival coverage: Hear Northampton Jazz Fest&#8217;s Ruth Griggs, JJA Jazz Hero, on The Buzz Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Montreal, Canada &#8211; June 25 &#8211; July 4 by Sharonne Cohen, photos ©&#160;2026 Before the 46th Edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal even begins, I already know I’m going to miss some extraordinary music. That’s simply the reality of covering the world’s largest jazz festival. With more than 350 performances packed into 10 days, every carefully chosen concert means others must be left out. After sixteen years covering the FIJM, my festival experience begins long before]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Chamber Music America honors JJA&#8217;s Mandel as &#8220;Arts Advocate&#8221;]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14038</id>
		<updated>2026-07-26T19:28:00Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-24T18:44:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Award for Arts Advocacy" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chamber Music America" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="CMA National Conference 2026" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Institute of Chicago" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chamber Music America, the non-profit organization supporting music of and by small ensembles across genre, has announced that Howard Mandel, JJA President Emeritus, is recipient of its 2026 Award for Arts Advocacy. Mandel and other honorees will receive their honors at a luncheon at the Drake hotel on Aug. 21 during the CMA National Conference, and he will participate in panels comprising a by-invitation Jazz Summit at the offices of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, on August 20, culminating in a performance by Nicole Mitchell&#8217;s Black Earth Ensemble at Constellation, drummer-composer-JJA Jazz Hero Mike Reed&#8217;s performance space. CMA Awards are]]></summary>

		
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			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Jazz Festivals kick-start in June, while JJA members move with the music all year ‘round!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13851</id>
		<updated>2026-06-21T14:37:55Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-21T10:01:52Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Backstage Bay Area" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Brad Stone" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="China Moses" /><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="Ellen Johnson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fiona Ross" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Gloria Krolak" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ian Mackenzie" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Backstory" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jersey Jazz Magazine" /><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="Monk Rowe" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Natalia Rikker" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Neil Tesser" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rick Mitchell" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ron Scott" /><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="Steve Cerra" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Foster" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The Jazz Groove" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. birth this July will resound with jazz, and not only in the USA. Fests in Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands, among others,&#160; mark our calendar! See them all listed at DownBeat (your 2026 JJA Jazz Awards Publication of the Year winner!): https://downbeat.com/news/detail/complete-listings-downbeats-2026-international-jazz-festival-guide and look for JJA members to be there, ready to spread news and views! Our newest members, not missing a beat: Paul Goldstein with The Jazz Groove, a listener-supported, non-profit, and non-commercial radio service, impacting individuals and communities in San Francisco and beyond by championing the power of jazz music with]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Fernando Rodriguez de Mondesert</name>
							<uri>http://www.jazzendominicana.com</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Meet our member, for 20 years driving jazz in Dominican Republic]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13730</id>
		<updated>2026-07-27T14:59:34Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-20T22:33:15Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Casa de Teatro" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fernando Fernando Rodríguez De Mondesert" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fiesta Sunset Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Hablemos de Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Dominicana" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz en Dominicana - The Interviews 2025" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Latin Jazz Network" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="New Orleans Jazz Museum" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ritmo Social" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The Santo Domingo Jazz Festival" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My website&#160;Jazz en Dominicana&#160;was born on October 23, 2006. It was originally a blog, intended to inform about the jazz that was presented in the Dominican Republic by local and international musicians, as well as about what Dominican jazz musicians were doing on other&#160;beaches, globally.&#160;To date, it has posted nearly 2,800 pieces: concerts and festival reviews, articles, interviews, biographies, photographs and more. Before the website completed its first year, in September 2007, the first live jazz venue for weekly performances in DR was born &#8211; Jazz Dominicana at Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo. It had grown out of The]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Virgil Mihaiu</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Euro scholars parse &#8220;Jazz &#8211; Word &#8211; Play&#8221;]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13794</id>
		<updated>2026-06-25T21:28:11Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-09T18:49:03Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Andrew Wright" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dusen Milenkovic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Franz Kogelman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jacqueline Waeber" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz-Word-Play" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazzographics" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kirsten Krick-Aigner" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Marc-Oliver Schuster" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Martin Lucke" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mildred Barya" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nike Pfiffer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pascale Cohen-Avenel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ralf Dombrowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ronald Pohl" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Tom Wright" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[More than a decade ago, I took part in the Jazz in Word International Conference, organized by Kirsten Krick-Aigner and Marc-Oliver Schuster under the aegis of the University of Vienna. The proceedings of that jazzology-forum were later published in the massive volume Jazz in Word / European (Non-) Fiction, (from Koenighausen &#38; Neumann Verlag, Wuerzburg, 2018). Recently, defying the current global vicissitudes, the same academic tandem made possible yet another Conference dedicated to the confluences between jazz and the arts of the word. The title was expanded by a new reference term: Jazz – Word – Play, bearing the subtitle]]></summary>

		
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			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Announced: 2026 JJA Jazz Awards Winners!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13783</id>
		<updated>2026-06-20T22:41:59Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-05T23:08:58Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="JJA Jazz Awards" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kenny Barron" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Zan Stewart" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners in the 49 categories of excellence in music and journalism of the&#160;31st&#160;annual JJA Jazz Awards. Pianist&#160;Kenny Barron&#160;is recognized for his Lifetime Achievement In Jazz, and writer-musician&#160;Zan Stewart&#160;receives&#160;the Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism. Bassist Christian McBride is voted Musician of the Year, and saxophonist Nicole Glover named Up and Coming Musician of the Year. Belonging, by the Branford Marsalis Quartet on Blue Note Records, is named Record of the Year. Marsalis also wins for Soprano Saxophonist of the Year. Recipients have been determined by a two-stage voting process involving professional members of the JJA, a non-profit organization of writers,]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Jazz matters: Appreciating Doug Ramsey, an admired colleague]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13766</id>
		<updated>2026-07-08T20:33:21Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-26T22:40:47Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bob Blumenthal" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Doug Ramsey" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Harris Meyer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Matters" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jerry Jazz magazine" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Joe Maita" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul Desmond" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Cerra" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[by Harris Meyer  While he was far better known in jazz circles as a writer than a musician, Doug Ramsey loved playing trumpet and cornet with local musicians in his adopted hometown of Yakima, Washington. “I’ve never stopped playing, despite many requests,” he once said with his characteristic self-deprecating wit. On May 19, 2026, Doug died in Yakima at age 91, and the jazz journalism community is mourning his loss. “Doug’s writings about jazz are so artfully done that opening an LP or CD” and finding that the liner notes were written by him is like “finding a real diamond]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[May days! May days! JJA members in the media here!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13755</id>
		<updated>2026-05-24T17:28:04Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-24T16:38:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><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="Flloyd RObichaux" /><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="Juan-Manuel Cantos-Ruiz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kelly Korzun" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kenneth K. Martinezz Burgmaier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lawrence Peryer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Major Caldwell" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mark Sheldon" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Matchie Cartwright" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mike Shaw" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Monk Rowe" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Natalia Rikker" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Noal Cohen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sid Grinbetz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Snford Josephson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Braunginn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Syd Schwartz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wilbert Sostre" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Yuki Kimura" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[How can beautiful, springtime May seem like the shortest month? Is it because the pleasures of Jazz Appreciation Month and International Jazz Day(especially in this year&#8217;s host city, Chicago) add so much momentum to what we do? Check out all the activities of JJA members, below &#8212; and consider it&#8217;s only a fraction of the writing, broadcasting, editing, photographing, producing, performing, teaching and so on that keeps news and views of jazz in the air &#8212; sweetening it, of course, like the blooms opening from those April showers. Oh, how I do go on! We also welcome new members: Major]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Danica Pantovic</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Spreading the word on European jazz, and how it should go global]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13689</id>
		<updated>2026-06-05T23:11:00Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-15T17:19:41Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Alexandre Herer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bremen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bremen Town Musicians" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Creative Europe" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Eric Birath" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="European jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fleurine Verloop Mehldau" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Grands Formats" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="jamie baum" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Denmark" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz In Europe" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="jazzahead!" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lydia Liebman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Marina Fernández" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mathias Heise" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Monika Herzig" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pedro Cravinho" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Silvia Alunni" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Terri Lyne Carrington" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="VJME" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Voice for Jazz Musicians in Europe" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Work permits, visas, bureaucracy, money, and transport issues, labels, distribution, accessibility to foreign jazz magazines, streaming platforms, booking agencies, media pitches, getting coverage, reaching out to a vast audience &#8212; to youngsters &#8212; inclusion, collaboration,&#160;economic imbalance,&#160;gender balance, sustainability &#8230; That&#8217;s a long list of challenges, but confronted with&#160;&#8220;an impulse to change,&#8221;&#160;as publicist-blogger Matt Merewitz put it, among those in today&#8217;s European and U.S. jazz industry. There&#8217;s said tor be a desire among musicians and audiences to get to know each other better. Artists and publicists attending jazzahead!, the annual international jazz trade fair in Bremen, Germany, called upon jazz journalists]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Emily Steinhilber</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Seat Map: Hear the audience come alive]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13606</id>
		<updated>2026-05-26T22:47:21Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-05T21:07:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Adam Chmej" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Adam Kessler" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Baba Yaga" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Darkalino&#039;s" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dylan Hayes" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Earshot Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Night Seattle" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lisa Hagen Glynn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Moe Weisner" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul Rauch" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pioneer Building Expansive" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Pioneer Square Jazz Night" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sidney Hauser" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Underbelly" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Zeitgeist Coffee" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[There’s a tendency, when writing about jazz, to fixate on the stage. But the stage is only one part of the system. Consider, too, the audience — their movement, their sense of urgency. If you’re paying attention, sometimes a city reveals how it actually listens. On February 24, Jazz Night in Pioneer Square, Seattle did just that. A free, multi-venue event presented by Seattle Jazz Fellowship in partnership with the Alliance for Pioneer Square activated fifteen venues across the neighborhood from 5:30 to 10 p.m., drawing a crowd in the thousands into a walkable circuit of live performance. The circuit]]></summary>

		
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