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	<title type="text">Jazz Journalists Association News</title>
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	<updated>2026-10-05T02:10:24Z</updated>

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			<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>2026-10-05T02:10:24Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-03T22:55:57Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><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>2026-09-28T17:48:31Z</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>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fest reports: Chicago, re-viewed]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14439</id>
		<updated>2026-10-01T02:22:59Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-25T00:45:34Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><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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		<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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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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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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		<author>
			<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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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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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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		<author>
			<name>Vilma Dobilaite</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Mil Estones de Jazz &#8212; Beneixama Fest #2]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14247</id>
		<updated>2026-09-08T18:52:49Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-31T21:21:18Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The second edition of&#160;Mil Estones de Jazz Festival took place in&#160;Beneixama, a small town in the province of Alicante, Spain, from August 10 to 16 2026, combining intensive jazz education with concerts and musical encounters. Of all the performances in a concert program featuring among other ensembles Kanan, Fumero &#38; Arnedo Trio,&#160;and the&#160;Mil Estones Big Band, I was most excited by Perico Sambeat Plays Zappa, and offer the portfolio of the ensemble below. “Every Zappa concert is a celebration — a mixture of rigorous arrangements and spontaneous creation,” says Perico Sambeat. His Perico Sambeat Plays Zappa was presented at the]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Michael J. West</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[As Labor Day approaches, JJA members work their mojos!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14254</id>
		<updated>2026-08-30T23:40:56Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-30T12:33:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="All About Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Allen Morrison" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chamber Music America" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chuck Obuchowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dan Polletta" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dave Popkin" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Doug Hall" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ed Trefzger" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Emily Springer" /><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="Greg Bell" /><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="Jesse Chuy Varela" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jim Brock" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kenneth K. Martinez Burgmaier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mark Sheldon" /><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="Michie Allen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Molly Motherwell" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul de Barros" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rob Wells" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sanford Josephson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Stephanie Stein Crease" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steve Braunginn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Steven Cerra" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Terrell Holmes" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The Buzz: The JJA Podcast" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The New York City Jazz Record" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vilma Dobilaite" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Women in Jazz Media" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Yuki Kimura" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[No need to have the blues for summer’s end since the music is non-stop as proved by the ever-increasing number of global news updates coming in &#8212; from Chamber Music America&#8217;sc conference at our base in Chicago to Hard Groove happening in Japan! [By the way, do you know that before Muddy Waters, Ann Cole sang these words written by Preston Foster?] “Midstream, Crossing that River”: This month’s JJA award-winning podcast The Buzz features Ruth Griggs speaking of the Northampton Jazz Festival. From rivers and lakes to airwaves, our newest members are in the current: Allen Michie out of Austin]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Jim Brock</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Newport Jazz Fest &#8217;26, sounds and sights]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14203</id>
		<updated>2026-09-08T19:03:43Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-24T18:24:51Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Billy Hart" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Charles Lloyd" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Cory Wong" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Flea" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jim Brock" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Joshua Redman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kamasi Washington" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Linda May Han Oh" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Marquis Hill" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mohini Dey" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nduduzo Makhathini" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Newport Jazz Festival" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The legacy of the Newport Jazz Festival is uncontested. As the oldest jazz festival in North America (established in 1954), Newport is simply hallowed ground. Louis, Ella, Miles, Coltrane, Sonny, and countless others all left their marks through George Wein’s vision. And some 72 years later, under the stewardship of Jay Sweet and first year Artistic Director Nate Smith, it is as vibrant and groundbreaking as ever. As a photographer, I experience the music both visually and aurally, but rarely get to more than 10 minutes of each performance. Barely enough time to reflect on what I hear, yet an]]></summary>

		
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			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The complete Montreal Jazz Fest, overview and photo gallery]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=14184</id>
		<updated>2026-08-23T20:35:56Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-23T20:35:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Text and photos by Sharonne Cohen, © 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 opening night, with the program spread out in front of me and a series of impossible decisions to be made. There were performances by artists ranging]]></summary>

		
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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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