Jeff Tamarkin
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05/20/13 News
Dave Douglas 50 States Project Tour Under Way
Free New Hampshire concert among upcoming gigs
05/19/13 News
‘Sinatra in the Park’ Benefit Concert Coming to NYC June 11
John Pizzarelli, Bettye LaVette, Allen Toussaint among artists
05/18/13 Albums
Journey to Journey
Miho Hazama
Journey to Journey is big and busy music, layers of sound that alternately complement, tag-team and overlap. New York-based, Japanese-born Miho Hazama employs more than a dozen musicians on this recording and she keeps them active. The composer and arranger...
05/14/13 News
Mika and Richard Stoltzman to Perform Works by Corea, Zorn, Reich and more
Carnegie Hall concert May 30 will feature several world premieres
05/14/13 News
NYC Landmarks Commission to Honor Miles Davis Thursday
The late trumpeter’s Upper West Side brownstone will receive a medallion
05/13/13 News
Dizzy’s Presents Chick Corea Festival Wed.-Sun.
Performers to include Joe Locke, Don Byron, Marcus Roberts, others
05/10/13 News
George Wein Receives Annual Highlights in Jazz Award
Newport Jazz Festival founder accepts award in NYC
05/09/13 News
Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Release First-Ever Album of New Compositions
‘That’s It!,’ produced by Jim James and Ben Jaffe, is due July 9
05/09/13 News
‘Live at Smalls’ Series Continues with Mabern, Magnarelli, Sipiagin & Vinson
SmallsLIVE label documents performances at the NYC club
05/08/13 News
TD Vancouver Int’l Jazz Festival Set for June 21-July 1
Numerous venues to be utilized; Herbie Hancock to appear June 30
05/08/13 News
Blue Note Records Partners with ArtistShare
New label will help promote upcoming artists
05/08/13 Albums
Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue
Terri Lyne Carrington
On her 50th-anniversary tribute to the Duke Ellington-Charles Mingus-Max Roach sessions that produced the original Money Jungle , drummer Terri Lyne Carrington wisely chooses not to attempt a reproduction of the earlier work but rather to approximate and...
05/07/13 News
Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival Set for May 16-18
D.C. program to be hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater
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ReportAbout Jeff Tamarkin
A former editor-in-chief of Goldmine, CMJ, Relix and Global Rhythm, Jeff Tamarkin is the Associate Editor of JazzTimes. He also spends his days (and often nights) freelancing for a variety of outlets, among them Playbill, the Boston Phoenix, Mojo, Relix and All Music Guide, covering anything from Appalachian string bands to Arabic pop music to rock, R&B, country and jazz of all kinds. Jeff is the author of the biography Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, as well as more than 75 liner notes and thousands of articles, reviews, press releases, bios, etc. Jeff has been a jazz fan since he was in the single digits and saw a couple of puppets lip-syncing to Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry's "Mumbles" on The Soupy Sales Show.
Jeff Tamarkin joined the JazzTimes community on Jan 31, 2008