My friends Seth and Ken, whom I met through blogging the Rochester International Jazz Festival, and I are pretty much just some regular guys who like to write and are geeky enough to do it online. Last year we came up with an idea to just sit around and talk about our experience of the RIJF and record that and put it up on the blogs as a podcast. In our minds we were going to be something like Bill Swerski’s Super Fans for jazz. Just three guys sitting around a table—let us know what you think about your first day of the RIJF in the comments.
Derrick Lucas Named 2026 JJA Jazz Hero
In addition to the musicians who play it, live jazz depends on many people to thrive in a community. Every year the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) celebrates individuals from across the United States (and this for a first, London) as “Jazz Heros” in launching their annual Jazz Awards season during…
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