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In Memoriam: Jack DeJohnette, 1942–2025
Jack DeJohnette, a bold and resourceful drummer and NEA Jazz Master who forged a unique vocabulary on the kit over his…
Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies will host “Jazz in the Global Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture,” an international conference of jazz journalists, Sept. 29 in New York.
Six panel discussions are scheduled, with 32 jazz journalists from around the globe weighing in on the state of jazz journalism in a changing society. The conference is curated by George E. Lewis, director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies, in close consultation with Jazz Journalists Association President and DownBeat contributor Howard Mandel.
The conference will cap off the Columbia/Harlem Festival of Global Jazz, which will run Sept. 19-29. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit jazz.columbia.edu.
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Jack DeJohnette, a bold and resourceful drummer and NEA Jazz Master who forged a unique vocabulary on the kit over his…
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