Below is a reminder for the Jazz Journalists Association panel on Thursday, April 14, at the Real Deal Jazz Club & Cafe at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 7-9 pm.
Michelle Mercer, author of "Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter," will be interviewed on the Eric Jackson show on WGBH Radio Wednesday, April 13, at 9 pm.
For Immediate Release
March 16, 2004
Contact: Dawn Singh
857-544-0739
dawn@dawnsinghpublicity.com
Jazz Journalists Association Presents "Jazz Criticism and How it Affects Audience Development"
The Jazz Journalists Association will present, "Jazz Criticism and How it Affects Audience Development” on Thursday, April 14, 2005, 7-9 pm , at the Real Deal Jazz Club & Cafe at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second Street, Cambridge, MA. Panelists are: Michelle Mercer, author, Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter; Dan Morgenstern, author, Living with Jazz; and Howard Mandel, author, Future Jazz. Jon Garelick, jazz journalist for the Boston Phoenix, will moderate. The event is free and open to the public.
Panelists will address the topic of the impact that jazz journalism has on audience development and awareness through the media and journalism. The three authors on the panel are leading writers in the jazz industry and will offer their perspectives on audience reaction to their informative and enlightening insights into the world of jazz and jazz musicians.
Michelle Mercer is a writer and music commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and Down Beat. Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter, (Tarcher/Penguin 2005) has been called ...”the closest we will come to an autobiography of one of the greatest composers and improvisers in jazz,” by the New York Times. Saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, says “Thank you, Michelle Mercer, for this fine book. Long live Wayne Shorter” Carlos Santana is quoted as saying, “The world views Wayne Shorter as some kind of mysterious enigma, but through this book from Michelle Mercer we are able to unravel the mystery and to begin to understand the man. When we trace the footprints we discover that this brilliantly creative entity whom we thought was so complex and unknowable is instead a marvelous emmisary of light and a messenger of a higher truth.” Written with Shorter’s full cooperation and involvement, the book traces the musician’s artistic and spiritual journeys. The first biography written on Shorter, Footprints provides rare insight into this eccentric fixture in the jazz scene.
Dan Morgenstern is Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, the largest archival collection of jazz and jazz related materials anywhere. He is a jazz historian, author, editor and archivist professionally active in the jazz field since 1958. Author of Living with Jazz (Pantheon, 2004) and Jazz People (1976), Morgenstern was chief editor of Down Beat from 1967 to 1973 and editor of Metronome and Jazz. He has been jazz critic for the New York Post, record reviewer for The Chicago Sun Times and New York correspondent and columnist for Britain’s Jazz Journal and Japan’s Swing Journal. He co-authored The Great Jazz Day (1999) and has contributed to reference works including The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and American Music, The African-American Almanac, and the Oxford Companiion to Jazz and the anthologies Reading Jazz, Setting the Tempo, The Louis Armstrong Companion, Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy, The Duke Ellington Reader, The Miles Davis Companion, The Lester Young Reader, and Jazz: A History of America’s Music.
Howard Mandel, author of Future Jazz (Oxford University Press, 1999), is a freelance journalist and President and Executive Director of the Jazz Journalists Association. He has written for The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, Down Beat , Jazziz and Swing Journal. Mandel is producer of arts news stories on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and is general editor of The Illustrated Encyclopiedia of Jazz and Blues, to be published in June by FlameTree Publishing.
The JJA panel is free and open to the public. Barnes & Noble will be on-site for book sales and the authors will sign books before and after the panel presentation. Legal Seafoods will cater the event with free hors d’oeuvres and there will be a cash bar. Affordable parking is availalble one block from the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center.
The Jazz Journalists Association is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization of internationally-based writers, editors, photographers, broadcasters and media specialists who institute collegial and educational programs for the appreciation, documentation and promulgation of jazz. As of January 2005, JJA comprises more than 400 members, mostly in the US and Canada, but also in Australia, Europe, the UK, Japan, Mexico, Moscow, South Africa and South America. For more information on the JJA or the panel presentation April 14, contact Dawn Singh at 857-544-0739 or
dawn@dawnsinghpublicity.com or see
www.dawnsinghpublicity.com.
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