The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
Latest Episodes
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....
Get Out and Do Something! The Past, Present, and Future of Event Listings
JJA Board Member Andrew Gilbert hosts a discussion with Steve Smith (Substack “Night After Night,” former Time Out New York music editor) and Chrys Roney (editor in chief and publisher of Hot House Jazz Magazine) about the past, present, and fu...
Making It Work: Hannah Edgar and Rayna Mathis on Careers, Community, and Criticism in Jazz Journalism
Lawrence Peryer, managing editor of The Buzz, hosts a discussion about what it takes to build a sustainable career covering jazz in 2026.Chicago Tribune critic Hannah Edgar and Earshot Jazz editor Rayna Mathis discuss the realities of wo...
Them Changes: Talking Jazz Journalism with Howard Mandel
Howard Mandel is an author, educator, journalist, and, since 1993, president of the Jazz Journalists Association. Howard's career crosses more than five decades of music journalism, from his early days writing for the Chicago Daily News to his ...