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	<title type="text">Jazz Journalists Association News</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Insights and updates from the Jazz Journalists Association</subtitle>

	<updated>2026-09-03T17:03:35Z</updated>

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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>2026-09-01T17:58:03Z</updated>
		<published>2026-09-01T17:58:01Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><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>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>2026-08-31T21:27:36Z</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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			<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>2026-08-24T20:55:32Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-24T18:24:51Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><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>
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		<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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			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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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>2026-09-03T17:03:35Z</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 Notes]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13869</id>
		<updated>2026-08-31T21:26:55Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-25T21:27:08Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Comprehensive reviews of Newport, NN North Sea Jazz Festivals and Jazz Day in Montenegro &#8212; Notes from Austin, Montreux, Rochester, Syracuse and Tri-C (Cleveland) Jazz Festivals, the Chicago Blues Festival and Edmonds WA Jazz Walk &#8212; More Festival coverage: Hear Northampton Jazz Fest&#8217;s Ruth Griggs, JJA Jazz Hero, on The Buzz Elias Haslanger at Monk&#8217;s Club &#8212; A power bigger than the city? &#8212; Austin, Texas by Thierry De Clemensat When I arrived in Austin after leaving France, I discovered a city unlike any other, a place where music seems to live in every street, every venue and every conversation.]]></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>2026-08-24T18:27:20Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-24T18:44:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><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, presented Howard Mandel, JJA President Emeritus, its 2026 Award for Arts Advocacy at a luncheon at the Drake hotel on Aug. 21 during the CMA National Conference, Mandel also participated in panel in a panel chaired by CMA&#8217;s editorial director Larrry Blumenfeld, with puboicist and Denver Jazz Festival founder Don Lucoff and WDCB music director Paul Abella, at a by-invitation Jazz Summit at the offices of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, on August 20. (Other speakers included pianist-composer Ryan Cohan, U of Oregon prof Andrew]]></summary>

		
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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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		<author>
			<name>Fernando Rodriguez de Mondesert</name>
							<uri>http://www.jazzendominicana.com</uri>
						</author>

		<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>2026-08-23T20:49:59Z</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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		<author>
			<name>Virgil Mihaiu</name>
					</author>

		<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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