
The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
The Buzz: Will Friedwald, multi-media deep-dive jazz expert, with Neil Tesser, writer-broadcaster-JJA board member
Will Friedwald does it all -- books on Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, jazz vocalists and the Great American Songbook; articles in publications including the Wall Street Journal; his own broadcasting platform and Substack, Slouching Towards Birdland. He speaks as winner of the 2024 JJA Jazz Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism to Chicago-based writer, broadcaster and JJA board member and Neil Tesser.
Eight nominees for our 2025 Book of the Year Awards, and 15 Honorable Mentions, are posted at JJANews.org, along with other articles from our international membership. Please also take a look at The Jazz Omnibus: 21st Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association, available online and wherever books are sold.
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