Jazz Journalism

Most of my music journalism has been writing about jazz. Printed articles include interviews, features, concert reviews, recordings in the following publications:

• Downbeat Magazine (Chicago, IL) jazz & classical records & CD reviews, interviews, festivals, concerts, books, Blindfold Tests.
• allaboutjazz.com (New York) CD reviews
• Jazz Times (Silver Springs, MD) features; concerts & festivals Reviews; Album, video and book reviews
• Boston Herald (Boston, MA) club and concert reviews, features
• Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) jazz & classical, features, film reviews
• Swing Journal (Tokyo, Japan) Club reviews & features
• Boston Globe (Boston, MA) guest critic, covering Boston Globe Jazz Festivals
• Boston Phoenix (Boston, MA) jazz features, CD & live reviews, theater reviews
• The Tab [Newspaper Group] (Newton, MA), reviews & interviews
• Bossa Magazine (Boston, MA) CD and concert reviews of Brazilian jazz/pop music
• NPR On-Line (Washington, DC) CD and book reviews
• Amazon.com (Seattle, WA) CD and book reviews

Other Publications: Jazz Journal International (London); Melody Maker (London); Billboard International; CD Review; Christian Science Monitor; Contemporary Keyboard; Crawdaddy; Sonic.net; Stuff Magazine; Travel & Leisure.

Published Interviews: Kenny Barron, Jane Ira Bloom, Kenny Burrell, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Meredith d’Ambrosio, Alan Dawson, Cesaria Evora, David Friesen, Jimmy Giuffre, Darrell Grant, Billy Hart, Fred Hersch, Illinois Jacquet, Teddi King, Dick Johnson, Ivan Lins, Marian McPartland, Mabel Mercer, Joshua Redman, Max Roach, Horace Silver, Edward Simon, Carol Sloane, Lennie Sogoloff, Richard Stoltzman, Chucho Valdes, Joe Venuti, Randy Weston, Phil Woods, Denny Zeitlin, and many others.

MIT Radio Interviews: see guestlist

Books: "Boston Jazz Clubs" section in Music Guide, by Christiane Bird (Da Capo Press, editions 1995 and 2001)

Muisc Education: SInce 2001, I've taught a self-designed course at in Music Journalism at Berklee College of Music. I've also hosted panels for the public (Boston Bebop) and faculty (Freelance Writing) and conducted videotaped interviews with Boston jazz legends for the Berklee Library's Oral History Project.

Record Business:

• Album Liner Notes: over 125; see samples.
• Musicians' Biographies: for various artists and labels
• Producing Reissues [Compiling and Sequencing Recordings]:
  • Lions Abroad, Black Lion Connoisseur Series (3 x 2-CD sets) Tenor Titans; Lion On The Keys; Le Lion à Paris
  • Original Jazz Legends, 1201 Music (3x5-CD sets)
    Torrid Trumpeters; Play Duke Ellington; Play George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Fats Waller, and Hoagy Carmichael.

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