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Close-up of a smiling young man wearing glasses and over-ear headphones, sitting centered on a red park bench on a sunny day. His eyes are closed in pure joy, and he’s wearing a light-colored shirt featuring the cover of Herbie Hancock's Headhunter album. Green trees and warm sunlight fill the softly blurred background.

Beyond Jazz Bullying

When I started listening to contemporary jazz, I kept reading about the “jazz police” and “jazz purists”. The self-appointed “authorities” on what jazz was. It was annoying that there was these “gatekeepers” that deemed what I was listening to was…

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No to Spotify

I left Spotify years ago when they decided they were rather pay millions of dollars for exclusivity rights to a podcast rather than increase the paltry amounts they pay the musicians who make up their business. All About Jazz, the…