Downbeat Magazine

Jazz writer for DownBeat, covering the traditional and contemporary scene, mostly focusing on the New York City-New Jersey region. Artists and events I wrote about in 2015 included Winard Harper, Kenny Werner, Kurt Elling, the Wes Montgomery International Jazz Guitar Competition with Pat Martino and Mark Whitfield, Christian Howes, the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Gilad Hekselman, Oded Tzur, Eden Ladin, the Israeli Jazz Festival, Billy Strayhorn, and Jazz, Jews and African Americans, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of New Jersey. I'm also an expert on the music and art of Frank Sinatra, and was a panelist at Sinatra: An American Icon Symposium held at Monmouth University, NJ, and co-presented by the Grammy Museum in partnership with the Sinatra Family and Frank Sinatra Enterprises

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Jazz writer for DownBeat, covering the traditional and contemporary scene, mostly focusing on the New York City-New Jersey region. Artists and events I wrote about in 2015 included Winard Harper, Kenny Werner, Kurt Elling, the Wes Montgomery International Jazz Guitar Competition with Pat Martino and Mark Whitfield, Christian Howes, the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Gilad Hekselman, Oded Tzur, Eden Ladin, the Israeli Jazz Festival, Billy Strayhorn, and Jazz, Jews and African Americans, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of New Jersey. I'm also an expert on the music and art of Frank Sinatra, and was a panelist at Sinatra: An American Icon Symposium held at Monmouth University, NJ, and co-presented by the Grammy Museum in partnership with the Sinatra Family and Frank Sinatra Enterprises.

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