The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
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From the JJA Archive: Paul Brady on Django Reinhardt's Jazz
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 guitari...
John Coltrane at 100: The Rehabilitation Gap
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 s...
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...