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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2005
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Jazz Journalists Association Presents
“Boston Jazz Now”

The Jazz Journalists Association will present “Boston Jazz Now” on Monday, November 28, 2005, 7-9 pm (Doors @ 6:30), at Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldier’s Field Road, Boston. Panelists are: Steve Schwartz, WGBH Radio; Jon Garelick, jazz journalist, Boston Phoenix; Donal Fox, composer and pianist and Artistic Director of JazzBoston; Esperanza Spalding, bassist/vocalist/Berklee College of Music Instructor; Karen Zorn, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Berklee College of Music; Marianne Solivan, Boston Jazz Collaborative Co-founder and jazz vocalist. The panel is produced and moderated by Jon Hammond, jazz radio announcer on 90.3 FM WRIU Kingston, RI and 90.5 FM WICN Worcester, MA. The event is free and open to the public.

One year after the JJA’s “The Past, Present, and Future of Live Jazz in Boston” panel brought a standing-room crowd to Scullers, we’ll take a look at and discuss the current Boston Jazz Scene as viewed from the radio, news, performance, and academia perspectives.

Jon Garelick is associate arts editor of the Boston Phoenix, where he also writes about music, books, movies, and other topics, as well as the column "Giant Steps," devoted chiefly to jazz. Jon also contributes to Jazziz and has also written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications. He is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his writing about music.

Steve Schwartz has been part of WGBH Radio for nearly two decades, bringing a wealth of jazz programming knowledge to the airwaves. Jazz from Studio Four, which airs Fridays at 7pm on WGBH 89.7, provides Schwartz a venue for his many talents as a producer and host. A Boston native, Schwartz was inspired by several local and national jazz announcers, including Tony Cennamo, Ed Beach and “Symphony” Sid Torin. He joined WGBH in 1985, creating the station's weekend overnight jazz program, The Jazz Gallery. His current program, Jazz from Studio Four (formerly Now's the Time), began 1990 and has remained an 89.7 jazz staple. Mr. Schwartz was the 2004 winner of the eighth annual Excellence in Jazz Broadcasting/the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award, presented by The Jazz Journalists Association. Past recipients include McPartland and Dr. Billy Taylor. Schwartz is also on the Board of Directors of the JJA.

Donal Fox is an internationally acclaimed composer, pianist, and improviser in both the jazz and classical fields. His numerous awards include a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition, a 1998 Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), and 1999, 2001, 2003 nominations for a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Fox's innovative “Jazz Duet Series” has included concerts, recordings, and collaborations with Oliver Lake, John Stubblefield, Billy Pierce, David Murray, Elliott Sharp, Regina Carter, Stefon Harris, Al Foster, Gary Burton, John Patitucci, and poet Quincy Troupe. Fox was the first African American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony from 1991 to 1992. In the l993-94 season, he was a special guest artist at the Library of Congress in a program recorded by NPR, and a visiting artist at Harvard University. Fox has been featured with the Richmond (VA) Symphony and held artist-in-residence posts at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Northern Ireland and the Oberpf