JJA Jazz Blogathon: Jazz in Your Community
To celebrate 2012 Jazz Day and Jazz Month– and everyday-is-jazz-day– the Jazz Journalists Association held its first ever Jazz Blogathon. We asked jazz bloggers and other jazz media makers to post about jazz in their community between April 13 and April 30, 2012. You’ll find their contributions, below: Together they add up to a profile of jazz as it is being played, learned about and listened to in cities and towns everywhere –more evidence that jazz is alive and thriving.
THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO OUR FIRST JJA BLOGATHON. We’ll have another soon.
- North Hollywood, CA Don Heckman
Here, There & Everywhere: Jazz at the Federal
By Don Heckman It's always a significant event when a new room for jazz opens. Whether it's small or large, daily or weekly, it's still s...- Canberra, Australia Eric Pozza
Canberra Jazz blog: Canberra blogs
Canberra is the national capital of Australia. It's a long way from the busy, beating heart of NYC, but jazz is now an international art ...
- Springfield, Massachusetts Priscilla Page
- Jordan Howard Mandel
- http://www.howardmandel.com/
- New York City, Eugene Marlow
Eugene Marlow - Bringing Jazz & The Arts to the Campus and Vice Versa
The Marlowsphere (#7) The celebration of the arts generally and jazz in particular in April is apparently a burgeoning, or perhaps I shou...- http://www.eugenemarlow.com/category/blog/
- Atlanta, Georgia Scott Fugate
- https://jazzevangelist1.wordpress.com/
- Schenectady, New York Rudy Lu
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KEITH PRAY'S BIG SOUL ENSEMBLE The Van Dyck Schenectady, NY 2011 byIn 2011, Keith Pray's Big Soul Ensemble's monthly residence at the Van...- Astoria and Long Island City, Queens (NY) Carol Sudhalter
Carol's Web Journal - Bravenet Blog
This was a great tour, and a wonderful time!!!SUN. DEC. 26 -9 pm - Sheraton Nicolaus Hotel, Bari - Paolo Lepore's Christmas Concert, "I L...- Israel Yair Spiegel
The SideMan | A Jazz Blog | Yair Spiegel | ג'אז: The Music Of Amit Golan
ג'אז ישראלי. בעבר די היה במושג הזה כדי לעורר חיוכי מבוכה (במקרה הטוב) או עוויתות סלידה (במקרה הפחות מנומס). אולם בשנים האחרונות קיבל הג'א...- Twin Cities, Minnesota Andrea Canter
JazzInk: In Appreciation of Jazz Educators
169; Andrea Canter [This article is posted as part of the Jazz Journalists Association Blogathon honoring Jazz Appreciation Month.] All o...- Decatur, Georgia Scott Fugate
- Everywhere Larry Blumenfeld
Remember four years ago, when Obama was running for president and Sarah Palin mocked the very notion of a community organizer? The New Or...- Greenville, New York Rudy Lu
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MICHAEL BENEDICT & BOPITUDEFive and One CD Release Performance Greenville High School Greenville, NY April 6, 2012 byA post bop jazz CD r... - Hudson, New York Susan Brink
- https://twitter.com/susanbrink1?lang=es
- Washington D.C. Giovanni Russonello
Weekend in jazz | 4.13-4.15: Barry Harris, Hiromi's trio and a warehouse blowout | CapitalBop
Editor's note: This post is part of the Jazz Journalists Association's Jazz Day 2012 Blogathon. Some phenomenal pianists are in D.C. this...- http://www.capitalbop.com/
- http://giovannirussonello.com/
- Puerto Rico Wilbert Sostre
Puerto Rico Jazz: Jazz in Puerto Rico
Even those with knowledge in jazz history may be surprised to learn about the great contribution of Puerto Rican musicians to this genre....- https://issuu.com/jazznbossa
- Boston Lindalee Lawrence
- Moscow, Russia Cyril Moshkow
Russian Jazz Notes: Russia celebrates the International Jazz Day
This post is part of the JJA 2012 Jazz Day Blogathon The inaugural International Jazz Day, proclaimed by UNESCO, is April 30. This year i...- https://moshkow.blogspot.cl/
- Auckland, New Zealand John Fenton
Craig Walters/Mike Booth Project @ the CJC in Auckland
During Jazz Week it was appropriate that the featured a band that was in some ways a metaphor for the greater Auckland scene. Jazz week i...
Dan Kennedy Quintet @ CJC - JJA Jazz Week Blogathon entry
Greetings to the world Jazz community on USA Jazz week from Auckland New Zealand, This is snapshot of a gig held at the CJC Jazz club in ...- https://jazzlocal32.com/
- Chicago Floyd Webb
- http://floydwebb.com/about
- Toronto, Canada Marek Lazarski
Ballister - April 08, 2012 - Cool Jazz Photos -- Marek Lazarski | SmugMug
BALLISTER Rough Idea Presents The Tranzac, Toronto, April 08, 2012- http://www.cooljazzphotos.com/
- Los Angeles Alex Rodriguez
In Los Angeles, An Immigrant's Dream Becomes A Jazz Hub
In the middle of recording his debut album, jazz vocalist Joon Lee received a phone call out of nowhere that made him stop, quite literal...- https://lubricity.wordpress.com/
- Taiwan Bret Primack
- Brooklyn (Kensington), New York Howard Mandel
Jazz close to home: Community blogathon entries start on Jazz Day
My Brooklyn neighborhood, called Kensington, is full of musicians, because residences are large and still semi-affordable. So I hear the ...- http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/
- Philadelphia Suzanne Cloud
- Twin Cities, Minnesota Andrea Canter
JazzInk: Happy Jazz Day!
169; Andrea Canter You would never know it by reading this morning's Star Tribune , but there are a lot of great ways to celebrate Jazz D...- http://www.jazzink.com/
- Ottawa, Canada Peter Hum
13 things to celebrate about Ottawa's jazz scene | Ottawa Citizen
Happy Jazz Day! What, you say? That's not what it says on your calendar? April 13 received this designation from the United States Counci...- http://ottawacitizen.com/?s=peter+hum
- Ambler, Pennsylvania Joseph Harrison
- Capital Region/Upstate New York J. Hunter
Nippertown!
Okay, class, let's review... March in Greater Nippertown was a monster build-up to the second-greatest thing the Smithsonian Institution ...- Cleveland, Ohio Matt Marshall
33rd Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Starts Next Week
Monday marks the unofficial open to this year's Tri-C JazzFest, when the Paul Samuels 4 and The Tri-C Trio + play at Brothers Lounge in L...- https://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/profile.php?id=35983
- Twin Cities, Minnesota Pamela Espeland
On National Jazz Day, reflections on our local jazz scene | MinnPost
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and April 13 is Jazz Day, designated in 2009 by the U.S. Council of Mayors. So today's Artscape is all a...- Paris, France Lindalee Lawrence
- New York City, Upper West Side David Adler
Lerterland
Jazz Blogathon: Upper West Side, NYC The following post is one of many being featured in the Jazz Journalists Association's 2012 Jazz Day...- http://blog.adlermusic.com/
- Philadelphia Jason Fifield
- New York City, Washington Heights Nate Chinen
Take It to the Bridge - THE GIG
I've been a New Yorker for almost 15 years, and I spent a decade of that time on West 14th Street in Manhattan, the blurry dividing line ...- http://thegig.typepad.com/
- https://twitter.com/natechinen?lang=es
- http://wbgo.org/people/nate-chinen
- Twin Cities, Minnesota Andrea Canter
JazzInk: Celebrating Jazz: Twin CIties Heroes
169; Andrea Canter It's Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), the 11 th such annual celebration since the Smithsonian Institution initiated the ...- http://www.jazzink.com/
GREGG AKKERMAN IS A MID-LIFE MUSICIAN: Young Jazz Lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina
April 13, 2012 has been designated by the U.S. Council of Mayors "Jazz Day" and the Jazz Journalists Association is celebrating that fact...- amazon
- http://www.jazzhistoryonline.com/Johnny_Hartman.html
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-akkerman-40588346
- Philadelphia Joseph Harrison
- Tornio, Finland and Haparanda, Sweden Jukka Piiroinen
Kalottjazz & Blues-festivaalin kuvia 1985 - 1987 | Valon kuvia - blogi
Yllä olevassa kuvasarjassa on esillä valokuviani lähes kolmenkymmenen vuoden takaa Tornion ja Haaparannan yhteisen jazzfestivaalin alkuvu...- http://www.valonkuvia.fi/blogi/
- Cambridge, Massachusetts Lindalee Lawrence
- Indianapolis, Indiana Karen Taborn
6. Links to Relevant Websites
The JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (JJA) is hosting a Jazz Blogathon in April 2012 to acknowledge that jazz is alive in local communities. ...- https://jazzindianaavenue.wordpress.com/
- Kuwait Ali Sleeq
Speakin' the Blues: Kuwait Jazz: Tiny Steps
In 1960, John Coltrane released one of his most famous albums, "Giant Steps". The title track features some of the most complex chord cha...
- http://speaktheblues.blogspot.cl/
