I’m proud of my two published books (Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz and Future Jazz) and my unpublished ones, too; the two iterations of the encyclopedia of jazz and blues; I edited, …

Arts Journal Jazz Beyond Jazz

03.04.2025

Across North America, 29 “Jazz Heroes”

Twenty-five years ago the Jazz Journalists Association began to identify and celebrate activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz as members of an “A Team,” soon renamed “Jazz Her…

Arts Journal Jazz Beyond Jazz

08.09.2025

Jazz, activism, organizing: Podcast & transcript

Terri Lyne Carrington (drummer, Inst. of Jazz & Gender Justice), Orbert Davis (trumpeter, “Immigrant Stories”) and Marc Ribot (guitarist, Music Workers Alliance) talked with me on T…

Arts Journal Jazz Beyond Jazz

10.09.2025

“Trucks and Tanks” short story, too timely

My just-published story Trucks and Tanks, runner-up in JerryJazzMusician.com’s 69th short fiction contest and written three months ago, is all too timely in Chicago, DC, Boston today. Trucks …

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