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The Jazz Journalists Association is a membership organization founded in 1986. We promote the creation and dissemination of accurate, ethical, informed journalism on all jazz’s genres, and encourage innovative use of media to spur the growth, development and education of audiences for jazz. Public programs include Seeing Jazz Photography Master Classes, The Buzz podcast, celebrations of Jazz Heroes and Jazz Awards, and the website JJANews.org. Theme "Big Vic" composed by John Michaels Featuring Makaya McCraven Geoff Vidaland Mark Dunlap recorded by Doug Hewitt. Podcast edited by Wiz Petta.© 2026 The Buzz: The JJA Podcast Arte Musica
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  • Where Have All The Critics Gone?

    Where Have All The Critics Gone?
    Nov 2 2026
    For this episode of The Buzz, moderator Rick Mitchell asks two critics a generation apart, Bob Blumenthal and Hannah Edgar, where all the critics have gone.There’s more opinion about music than ever, and fewer staff jobs and outlets to back the people writing it. Bob and Hannah talk about how writers break in now, why younger critics ignore genre lines, and what mentorship gave each of them, from the Smithsonian seminars of the 1970s to the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism. They also take up the JJA’s new Arnold J. Smith seminars and producer Orrin Keepnews’s charge that jazz criticism is “a bad idea poorly executed.”Buzzworthy NotesGuest & HostRick Mitchell: moderator; producer of the syndicated radio show Jazz in the New MillenniumHannah Edgar: Chicago-based critic, writer, and radio producerBob Blumenthal: JJA board member and Book Committee chairLawrence Peryer: managing editor of The BuzzDiscussed“How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge”: Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 2025; the article Hannah citesTone Glow: experimental music publication Hannah writes forLeft on Reed: Jacob Reed’s SubstackInternational Anthem: Chicago label Hannah names as a model for genre-porous jazzMark Swed: retired Los Angeles Times classical critic, not being replacedAlex Ross: New Yorker critic stepping back from dedicated classical coverageClaudia Cassidy: longtime Chicago Tribune critic; subject of Hannah’s undergraduate thesisRubin Institute for Music Criticism: the program Hannah attended in 2018Gary Giddins: critic who was Bob’s peer at the Smithsonian seminars and later Hannah’s teacher at the Rubin InstituteJazzmeia Horn: the SFJAZZ performance Hannah reviewed at the Rubin InstituteMartin Williams, Dan Morgenstern, and Albert Murray: senior writers at the 1970s Smithsonian seminarsBranford Marsalis: “Jazz without apologies”Orrin Keepnews: producer behind the “bad idea poorly executed” line“We Should Talk About Music”: Matthew Shipp and Ethan Iverson on Writing as Practice: Bob’s earlier Buzz episodeMcCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones: Bob’s example of spreading the creditArnold J. Smith Intergenerational Professional Development SeminarsSupport for The JJA comes in part from the Jazz Foundation of America, providing emergency assistance, healthcare, and performance opportunities to performers, composers and others in need. Visit jazzfoundation.org.This podcast is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Don’t miss new episodes of The Buzz. Make sure you follow us wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from the Jazz Journalists Association, go to JJANews.org.
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    37 min
  • From the JJA Archive: Paul Brady on Django Reinhardt's Jazz

    From the JJA Archive: Paul Brady on Django Reinhardt's Jazz
    Oct 5 2026
    This episode of The Buzz comes from the JJA archive. In 2010, Django Reinhardt's centennial year, the JJA's Jazz Matters series at The New School in New York presented a panel titled Jazz Scholarship: The Next Generation. It opened with guitarist Paul Brady, then a member of the Hot Club of Detroit, who had written his master's thesis on Django.Brady argues that Django was, in his words, "in the truest sense, a jazz guitarist," and that writers spent too much time on the legend and too little on the playing. He builds the case from the records: Django landing on thirds and ninths in "Django's Tiger" before he had heard Dizzy Gillespie, the "Salt Peanuts" quote in "Babik," and voice leading in "Moppin' the Bride" that Charlie Parker would have recognized. Along the way he takes issue with Gunther Schuller's view that Django's style grew out of folk traditions, and he closes on two players who honor Django in their own voices, guitarist Biréli Lagrène and saxophonist James Carter.In the Q&A that follows, moderator David Adler and Howard Mandel ask about Thelonious Monk, the soundtrack of Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, and how Carter imitates Django's picking on the saxophone. Host Lawrence Peryer bookends the talk with a look at what has changed in the sixteen years since, from new research on Django's injured hand to Siv Lie's work with the Manouche musicians who play this music in France today.Musical excerpts heard in this episode: Django Reinhardt, "Babik"; Django Reinhardt, "Moppin' the Bride"; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, "Shaw 'Nuff"; Biréli Lagrène, "Coquette"; Biréli Lagrène, "Incertitude" (Electric Side, 2008); Django Reinhardt, "Diminishing"; James Carter, "Diminishing" (Heaven on Earth, 2009).Buzzworthy NotesGuest & HostPaul Brady: guitarist, formerly of the Hot Club of Detroit; now winemaker, Paul Brady WineDavid Adler: moderatorHoward Mandel: JJA President EmeritusLawrence Peryer: host; managing editor of The BuzzDiscussedDjango Reinhardt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_ReinhardtMichael Dregni, Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend (Oxford, 2004): https://books.google.com/books/about/Django.html?id=V4fujovyvCYCGunther Schuller, The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_SchullerDan Morgenstern, Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_MorgensternRex Stewart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_StewartStéphane Grappelli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_GrappelliQuintette du Hot Club de France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintette_du_Hot_Club_de_FranceEddie Lang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_LangJoe Venuti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_VenutiDizzy Gillespie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_GillespieLewis Porter, Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_PorterSweet and Lowdown (1999): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_and_LowdownHoward Alden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_AldenKen Peplowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_PeplowskiHubert Rostaing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_RostaingBiréli Lagrène: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir%C3%A9li_Lagr%C3%A8neBabik Reinhardt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babik_ReinhardtJames Carter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carter_(musician)Julian Bream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_BreamBenjamin Givan, The Music of Django Reinhardt (Michigan, 2009): https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Music-of-Django-ReinhardtMichael Wininger and David J. Williams, "More with less: A comparative kinematical analysis of Django Reinhardt's adaptations to hand injury" (2014): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309364614523173Siv B. Lie, Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France (Chicago, 2021): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo114656860.htmlSupport for The JJA comes in part from the Jazz Foundation of America, providing emergency assistance, healthcare, and performance opportunities to performers, composers and others in need. Visit jazzfoundation.org.This podcast is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Don’t miss new episodes of The Buzz. Make sure you follow us wherever you listen to podcasts. For more from the Jazz Journalists Association, go to JJANews.org.
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    30 min
  • John Coltrane at 100: The Rehabilitation Gap

    John Coltrane at 100: The Rehabilitation Gap
    Sep 7 2026

    For John Coltrane's hundredth birthday, this episode of The Buzz has host Lawrence Peryer delivering a solo monologue tracing how critics heard Coltrane while he was alive, and how that judgment has shifted, or hasn't, in the sixty-five years since.

    The piece opens with discussion of John Tynan's 1961 Down Beat review calling Coltrane and Eric Dolphy's playing "anti-jazz," then turns to LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), who used the same root word, "anarchy," that Tynan had used derisively, but as praise, in his essay "Jazz and the White Critic." From there it follows Ira Gitler's "sheets of sound," coined to give critics language for what Coltrane was doing instead of dismissing it as noise, and Miles Davis's On the Corner, hated at release and reclaimed twenty years later.

    The heart of the episode is Coltrane's relationship with Albert Ayler: the phone calls, the shared bills at the Village Vanguard, Coltrane pushing producer Bob Thiele to sign Ayler to Impulse, and Ayler's quartet opening Coltrane's 1967 funeral with a set built from their own compositions. Coltrane is close to a saint today. Ayler is still a name that has to be explained.

    The episode closes on a live critical fight: Phil Freeman's recent Brooklyn Rail case that Coltrane's real peak ended in 1965, against guitarist Nels Cline, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's defense of the late recordings Freeman dismisses. The same argument that split critics in 1961 is still unresolved in 2026.

    Musical excerpts heard in this episode: John Coltrane, "Chasin' the Trane" (Live at the Village Vanguard, 1961); Miles Davis, "Black Satin" (On the Corner, 1972); Albert Ayler Quartet, "Truth Is Marching In," from the album, In Greenwich Village.

    Buzzworthy Notes

    Guest & Host
    Lawrence Peryer — host and managing editor of The Buzz

    Discussed
    John Coltrane · Eric Dolphy · John Tynan (Down Beat critic who wrote the 1961 "anti-jazz" review) · LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka ("Jazz and the White Critic," collected in Black Music) · Ira Gitler (coined "sheets of sound") · Miles Davis, On the Corner (1972) · Albert Ayler · Ornette Coleman · Phil Freeman (critic, Brooklyn Rail / Burning Ambulance) · Nels Cline · Jack DeJohnette · Peter Brötzmann · Meditations (1966) · Interstellar Space (recorded 1967) · Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, San Francisco

    Support for The JJA comes in part from the Jazz Foundation of America, providing emergency assistance, healthcare, and performance opportunities to performers, composers and others in need. Visit jazzfoundation.org.

    This podcast is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

    Don’t miss new episodes of The Buzz. Make sure you follow us wherever you listen to podcasts.

    For more from the Jazz Journalists Association, go to JJANews.org.
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    13 min
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