The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
Latest Episodes
Midstream, Crossing That River: Ruth Griggs on the Northampton Jazz Festival
For this episode of The Buzz, Lawrence Peryer talks with 2025 JJA Jazz Hero Ruth Griggs, longtime director of the Northampton Jazz Festival, about the trade-off facing a fifteen-year-old, mostly-free festival built for a loyal, older jazz audie...
"We Should Talk About Music": Matthew Shipp and Ethan Iverson on Writing as Practice
For this episode of The Buzz, JJA Book Committee chair Bob Blumenthal speaks with the winners of the 2026 JJA Jazz Awards’ two Book of the Year categories: pianist Matthew Shipp, honored for Black Mystery School Pianists and ...
Zan Stewart, JJA Lifetime Achievement Honoree: A Real Jazz Advocate
For this episode ofThe Buzz, JJA President Emeritus Howard Mandel speaks with Zan Stewart, the JJA's 2026 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism honoree.Zan Stewart spent thirty-five years covering jazz as a beat reporter writi...
Miles Davis at 100: What We Remember and What We Miss
Miles Davis would have turned one hundred this year. The centennial has brought the somewhat predictable wave of reissues, retrospectives, and tributes. But which Miles keeps coming back? The suit-and-narrow-lapels Miles of the fifties. Kin...
Free Tickets, Steak Dinners, and the Ethics of Jazz Journalism
Jazz criticism has always operated in close quarters: small rooms, tight communities, artists who become sources and sometimes friends. That proximity is part of what makes the writing worth reading. It's also what makes the ethics complicated....