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The Buzz: The JJA Podcast — 66 episodes

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1

Miles Davis at 100: What We Remember and What We Miss

2

Free Tickets, Steak Dinners, and the Ethics of Jazz Journalism

3

Get Out and Do Something! The Past, Present, and Future of Event Listings

4

Making It Work: Hannah Edgar and Rayna Mathis on Careers, Community, and Criticism in Jazz Journalism

5

Them Changes: Talking Jazz Journalism with Howard Mandel

6

Jazz Books for the Naughty and Nice

7

It's All About the Music

8

Beyond Category: How Three Music Writers Navigate a Genre-Fluid World

9

Jazz as Organizing: Music, Community, and Social Change

10

Jazz in the Age of AI

11

2025 JJA Book Award Winners

12

A Publicist Roundtable: Promoting Jazz in a Changing Media Landscape

13

2025 JJA Awards Special Edition

14

Jazz in Print - Three Self-Publishing Success Stories

15

Old Wine, New Glasses - Bob Blumenthal with authors and scholars Ricky Riccardi and Fumi Tomita

16

Bilingual Jazz Journalism - Tomas Pena and Jose Masso, hosted by Michael Ambrosino

17

Will Friedwald, multi-media deep-dive jazz expert, with Neil Tesser, writer-broadcaster-JJA board member

18

Darius and Catherine Brubeck on South African jazz education

19

Introducing The Jazz Omnibus: Lawrence Peryer interviews the JJA's editorial team

20

Editors Rayna Mathis (Earshot) and Chrys Roney (Hot House) with JJA president Howard Mandel

21

The Buzz: Jazz from a Rural Place with Ann Tappan, Montana Jazz Hero and host Howard Mandel

22

Authors' Series: Farah Jasmine Griffin, JJA Book Award winner, speaks to Fiona Ross

23

Historical jazz releases and liner notes: historian/author Ashley Kahn and producer Zev Feldman, the Jazz Detective, with Rick Mitchell

24

The Buzz Author's Interview: Walter van de Leur on Jazz and Death, with Fiona Ross

25

The Buzz Author's Interview: Aaron Cohen, Ramsey Lewis' co-writer, speaks with Brad Stone

26

The Buzz Author's Interview: Philip Arneill, photographer-author of Book Award nominee Tokyo Jazz Joints, with Brad Stone

27

The Buzz Author's interviews: Carmen Fields of Goin' Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band

28

Authors' Series: Con Chapman of "Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good"

29

The Buzz Author's Interviews: Henry Threadgill's co-author Brent Hayes Edwards

30

The Authors' Series: Stephanie Stein Crease, biographer of Chick Webb in Rhythm Man, interviewed by Bob Blumenthal

31

The Authors' Series: Steve Isoardi, of The Dark Tree, speaks of Horace Tapscott, with Bob Blumenthal

32

Jazz Journalism and Jazz Education: Intersections and Tensions

33

How we compile Best of Year lists

34

Jazz Radio Now!

35

Three authors discuss their books on Gerry Mulligan

36

Bill Milkowski interview part 2 -- with Rick Mitchell and Howard Mandel, reminiscing

37

Jazz Journalism, Then and Now, with Veteran Writer Bill Milkowski and host Rick Mitchell

38

The Art of the Interview, with Ted Panken, Robin Lloyd and host Rick Mitchell,

39

Does the Mainstream Jazz Media Tokenize Latin Jazz? Part 2

40

Does the Mainstream Jazz Media Tokenize Latin Jazz? Part 1

41

Andrew Gilbert discusses the changes at JazzTIMES with James Gavin & John Murph, part 2

42

Host Andrew Gilbert discusses the changes at JazzTIMES with James Gavin & John Murph, part 1

43

Fiona Ross speaks with authors Willard Jenkins, Aidan Levy and Michael Wolff

44

Brad Stone speaks with authors Philip Watson and Kenny Werner

45

Host Bob Blumenthal with Richard Koloda, Monika Herzig & James Reddan, Michael Wolff

46

About Jazz Polls

47

Andrew Gilbert in conversation with Hannah Edgar

48

White Critics Writing About Black Music

49

Free Jazz on Film part 2

50

Free Jazz on Film part 1

51

The Extraordinary Journey of Jason Miles : A musical biography

52

Aidan Levy, author "Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins"

53

Rick Lopez, author of "The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work In Progress"

54

Jazz Critics & Radio Programmers: do industry professionals listen differently?

55

Willard Jenkins on his new book, "Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story"

56

Journalists Running Their Own Website

57

Freelance Writers on Print and Internet Media

58

Archives: Wayne Winborne & Ashley Kahn; Reuben Jackson

59

About Jazz Archives with Wayne Winborne and Ashley Kahn

60

Talking Jazz Festivals with Larry Blumenfeld and Carolyn McClair

61

Talking Photography with Richard Conde

62

Talking Jazz Radio with Linda Yohn & Cheryl Symister-Masterson, Rick Mitchell hosts

63

A Look at Jazz Criticism

64

The 2022 JJA Jazz Awards w/ Mark Ruffin & Neil Tesser

65

Jazz Books and Jazz Heroes

66

Introducing The Buzz: The JJA Podcast