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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>2026-02-28T00:40:07Z</updated>

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		<author>
			<name>Brad Stone</name>
							<uri>http://SoulandJazz.com</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Women in Jazz Media turns 5]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13344</id>
		<updated>2026-02-27T16:26:27Z</updated>
		<published>2026-02-27T16:22:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Brad Stone" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fiona Ross" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Women in Jazz Media" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It is widely accepted that jazz has historically been a male-dominated genre and continues to be so today. But one particular medium that has contributed to breaking down gender barriers in jazz has been the online magazine Women in Jazz Media out of the UK, which in November 2025 celebrated its five- year anniversary.&#160; View online or download its 14th edition, published last December, here. Women in Jazz Media is the brainchild of founder Fiona Ross, a vocalist, pianist and composer as well as a journalist and JJA member on the Book Awards committee, who serves as its publisher. I]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Rebecca Klobucher</name>
							<uri>https://www.rebeccaklobucher.com</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[February members&#8217; updates]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13174</id>
		<updated>2026-02-17T19:35:44Z</updated>
		<published>2026-02-15T18:49:41Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="American Made Music Series" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Andy Emler" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="David Adler" /><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="Donald Meade Legacy Jazz Griot Award" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Geoffrey Himes" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Hudson Valley Writers Center" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jennifer Roberts" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jersey Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Karla Harris" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Larry Blumenfeld" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mark Ruffin" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Middle C Jazz Club" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mike Shanley" /><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="Noal Cohen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paris Move" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Paul Reynolds" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Scott E Brown" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Stephanie Stein Crease" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The Nation" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Thierry De Clemensat" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Did Valentine’s Day leave you longing for love? We’ve got some to share! Our hearts and inboxes are overflowing with good news from members, and more jazz journalists joining the JJA network! Newest members include Londoner Alice Hill, who writes for Jazzwise magazine and broadcasts on Jazz Funk Soul Radio; New York’s Robert Levin, a veteran journalist and author of two books; and Emily Springer, who works out of the stealthily swinging town of Montclair, New Jersey. Please welcome our new members, and extend congratulations with the JJA community to these notable veterans: Lou Jones was featured on the FRONT]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>SudSax</name>
							<uri>http://sudhalter.com/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[On the road: Alternative venues in Italy]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13254</id>
		<updated>2026-02-03T16:02:49Z</updated>
		<published>2026-02-03T16:01:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Headlines" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Alessandro “Magicomare” Maruccia" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="alternative venues in Italy" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Atelier del Teatro e Delle Arti" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Carol Sudhalter" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Carta da Zuccero" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Francesco Lomagistro" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Frantoio Rosso Ipogeo" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Giovanni Monteforte" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Libreria Roma" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Maria Torelli" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mimmo Tripodi" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Stazione 37" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Swing Pub" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vito Di Modugno" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[CAROL SUDHALTER, text and photos I often travel to Italy to perform, most often in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Rome and Puglia, and always with local musician friends. Having lived there in the late 1960s, I&#160;am fluent in Italian. Audiences love hearing my explanations in Italian of lyrics to tunes such as &#8220;Everything Happens to Me&#8221; or “Old Folks,” straining to catch every word as I sing in English.&#160; Everywhere, I find warm-hearted folks who are a delight to play for. My latest tour was especially nice because we announced my 83rd birthday, and I witnessed a trend toward alternative venues for]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[25% off The Jazz Omnibus, this site only! Paperback or hardcover, follow links!]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=12131</id>
		<updated>2026-02-03T06:48:55Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-28T17:10:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Amy Winehouse" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Andrea Canter" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ashley Khan" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Berklee School of Music" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Blue Note Records" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Carla Bleuy" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Cymbal Press" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dan Morgenstern" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="David Adler" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Deanna Witkowski" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dorothy Longo" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Doug Hall" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Enid Farber" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="George Wein" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Impulse!" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jack B. Siegel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Foundation of America" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Journalists Association" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="JJA" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Keith Jarrett" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mary Lou Williams" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Michael Jackson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mike Longo" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mirian Arbalejo" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nate Chinen" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Patricia Barber" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Patrick Hinely" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Peter Keepnews" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sonny Rollins" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sun Ra" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Suzanne Lorge" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ted Gioia" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ted Panken" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Terri Hinte" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="The New Jazz Emigrés" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Verve Records" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Willard Jenkins" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wynton Marsalis" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The JJA is continuing to offer The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association, the unique anthology published in ebook and print-on-demand paperback and hardcover editions by Cymbal Press, and now at a 25% discount, exclusively through JJA links. Deluxe Hardbound with Slipcover (now $44.95) or 600 pp. Paperback (now $29.95). And to go with the book, the JJA has merch!&#160; Vivid Jazz Omnibus t-shirts (Tangible Sound cover photo of Roscoe Mitchell by Lauren Deutsch) are as low as $16. Phone cases, tote bags, stickers, mugs, hats, etc… are also available at&#160;TeePublic. Proceeds help]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Terri Hinte</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Appreciating Lee Hildebrand, 1947-2025, the Bay Area blues and jazz writer who loved to drum]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13211</id>
		<updated>2026-02-04T18:59:44Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-27T23:04:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Final Bars" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="East Bay Express" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Fay Victor" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lee Hildebrand" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Terri Hinte" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My friend Lee Hildebrand died in January 2025 at the age of 78. I have some words of remembrance. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Lee started out as a drummer. “He had a way of putting West Coast styling on a Chicago shuffle,” was how bassist Henry Oden described Lee’s playing. When music did not pan out for him financially, Lee turned to writing about music, his main focus for the rest of his life. My first encounters with Lee took place in the late 1970s, when he was music editor of the East Bay Express, a widely]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>JJA Editor</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Celebrating 41 years, JJA looks at 2026]]></title>
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		<id>http://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=3850</id>
		<updated>2026-01-21T23:24:55Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-21T21:22:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Happy New Year, Jazz Journalists Association members and friends &#8212; please help us celebrate 2026 as the 41st anniversary of the founding &#160;of our professional organization.  Supporting the creation  and dissemination of high quality coverage of jazz in all its forms, and encouraging the growth of the jazz audience through innovative as well as traditional forms of media, the JJA looks to its past with satisfaction and to its future full of plans, aware of challenges. As W. Royal Stokes, active from the beginning and for 10 years editor of the JJA&#8217;s original newsletter Jazz Notes, has written about the]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Neil Tesser</name>
					</author>

		<title type="html"><![CDATA[post-publication recreation January 2026 Members Updates]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13336</id>
		<updated>2026-02-17T19:54:07Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-16T19:53:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Dear Diary, Well, we made it through the Holidaze — no small accomplishment on its own — and into the unofficial jazz start to the New Year: the Winter Jazz Fest in New York, covered thus far by JJA members Paul Reynolds, Mike Shanley, and David Adler. Running concurrently, the annual conference of the Jazz Education Network (JEN) is held in New Orleans, where Mark Ruffin, winner of the JJA’s 2017 Marian McPartland-Willias Conover Award for career broadcasting, received the Donald Meade Legacy Jazz Griot Award. (Previous winners included Jimmy Heath, Dorthaan Kirk, and Congressman John Conyers, Jr.) And then,]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Neil Tesser</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[December members&#8217; updates]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13134</id>
		<updated>2025-12-17T20:04:11Z</updated>
		<published>2025-12-17T20:04:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Alan Perlman" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Anita Brown" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="C. Andrew Hovan" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Chris Cartwright" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Darrel McKaig" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="David Haney" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dmitri Ukhov" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Geoffrey Himes" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Geoffrey Himesz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ian R. MacKenzie" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="john chacona" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Kitty Margolis" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Konstantin Rega" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Luray Caverns" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Nasari Vega" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Neil Tesser" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Patrick Hinely" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sanford Josephson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sascha Feinstein" /><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="Timothy Cox" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wilbert Sostre" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Yael Acher &quot;KAT&quot; Modiano" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The end of the year closes fast: early deadlines to meet before the holidays, “Best Of” lists to compile, and of course, clearing the decks for the onrush of new albums, books, podcasts, concerts and club shows that start to rev up in January. There’s plenty to keep JJA members listening, reading — and producing new work.But as you’ll see, it’ll be hard to top the pace of activity (below) that our members have reached in the last month. It caps off a banner year for the JJA, not least because of our collection of members’ work inThe Jazz Omnibus]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Howard Mandel</name>
					</author>

		<title type="html"><![CDATA[International editors-publishers chat]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13118</id>
		<updated>2026-02-28T00:40:07Z</updated>
		<published>2025-12-15T23:56:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Anne Yven" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Citizen Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="DownBeat" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Frank Alkyer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="In &amp; Out Jazz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz Degrisi" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazz-Con 2025" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jazzwise" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jerald Miller" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jose Cabello Llano" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Masayuki Koito" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Mike Flynn" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="the Walkers" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Zuhal Focan" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was pleased to moderate an international panel of journalists on &#8220;From the Page to the Stage: Covering Jazz Across Borders&#8221; at Jazz-Con 2025, an innovative two-day online-only multi-event held in Sept. thanks to indefatigable producer Jerald Miller. &#8220;What’s it like covering jazz around the world? Editors and publishers from leading jazz publications discuss their local scenes, editorial challenges and opportunities for artist to gain further coverage. They discuss the current role of media in documenting and supporting the music. A unique global check-in from those who write for the record.&#8221; I can&#8217;t say we got to all that, but]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Virgil Mihaiu</name>
					</author>

		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Belgrade Jazz Fest: International, Indefatigable]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13073</id>
		<updated>2025-12-15T23:59:06Z</updated>
		<published>2025-11-22T20:46:01Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Alexander Hawkins" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Aruan Ortiz" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Belgrade Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Belgrade Youth Center" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Beogradski Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Dusko Goykovich" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Eternal Love Quartet" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="James Brandon Lewis" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Jeljko Vesic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Marta Sanchez" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Miles Davis" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Newport In Belgrade Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Rastko Obradovic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ricardo Toscano" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Roberto Ottaviano" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="RTS Big Band" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Shalosh" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Stjepko Gut" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sylvie Courvoisier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Thierry De Clemensat" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Virgil Mihaiu" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vlada Maricic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vojislav Pantic" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wadada Leo Smith" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Photos by Jarko Vesic One of Europe’s most impressive jazz festivals – Beogradski Jazz Festival – has created and maintained, for over half a century, a good reputation. The first edition was held in the autumn of 1971 in the (then) capital of Yugoslavia, under the title Newport in Belgrade Jazz Festival, as a result of the optimal collaboration between the local organizers and jazz impresario George Wein, founder of the legendary festival in northeastern USA. From the very beginning, the program featured overwhelming names: the opening concert was performed by the world’s archetypal big band – Duke Ellington and]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[November&#8217;s come: Members updates]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13038</id>
		<updated>2026-01-17T18:14:43Z</updated>
		<published>2025-11-12T23:29:52Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Member Updates" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Bill McCann" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Brad Stone" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Eva Kapanadze" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Hiliary Seabrook" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Howard Mandel" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Ken Martinez-Burgmaier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Larry Tye" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Lawrence Peryer" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Natalia Rikker" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sanford Josephson" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Scott Thompson" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The year&#8217;s rushing to a close but wow, what a lot of jazz there is, has been and will be! JJA members are grateful, and more than that &#8212; engaged. Busy trying to get you, dear reader, up on news and views of the music scene we love to live in. Check out our books (not least, The Jazz Omnibus). Hear our podcasts (for instance, The Buzz). See our photos, watch our documentaries, take our courses! Listen to some music! New members are Ruth Griggs, president of the Northampton Jazz Festival and a 2025 JJA Jazz Hero, and Robert Nein,]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Vilma Dobilaite</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[&#8220;Art Exists to Inspire Change&#8221; &#8212; Wadada bids Europe farewell at the Vilnius Jazz Festival]]></title>
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		<id>https://news.jazzjournalists.org/?p=13011</id>
		<updated>2026-01-29T21:23:35Z</updated>
		<published>2025-11-11T22:05:12Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Features" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Photo Essays" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Sylvie Courvoisier" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vilma Dobilaite" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Vilnius Jazz Festival" /><category scheme="https://news.jazzjournalists.org" term="Wadada Leo Smith" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Trumpet legend and multi-instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith and Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier—both award-winning composers with long-standing artistic partnership — presented their new album Angel Falls (Intakt, 2024) during this year’s Vilnius Jazz Festival. The performance marked a significant moment: Smith, who turns 84 in December, has announced this as his final European tour. “I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn’t happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.” —&#160;Wadada Leo Smith Their duo, a compelling dialogue of sound and silence, presented atmospheric compositions infused with depth, lyricism and spiritual reflection. Courvoisier’s crystalline precision]]></summary>

		
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