Interesting post and discussion by Nate Chinen about grants and commissions in jazz. Commissions… have become a fundamental part of the jazz economy. And, I’d add, now a significant factor in jazz’s creative life. Last year I confessed some guarded ambivalence about this fact in a related Gig column, musing about the specific qualities of …
Monthly Archive: July 2009
New J4JA Logos
You can download any of these images for use on your site or e-mails as graphic links to our campaign site www.justiceforjazzartists.org to get more musicians AND music lovers to sign onto the campaign. We put together a few sizes and looks playing off the print logo. Just pick the ones you like best. Simply …
J4JA Petitioners Now Over 900!
Hey All: J4JA! Petitioners have now reached over 900 concerned professional musicians and fans from all over! Here are some recent signers: Dave Liebman Helen Merrill Bernice Watkins Sean Gough Gail Hightower Ayodele Maakheru Bob Blumenthal Regina Carter Laurence Donohue-Greene We are building steam! Keep up the good work! Best, Jimmy Owens Bob Cranshaw J4JA!
Work for Free? Not!
This short article details how the NYC musicians’ union was able to get payment for a young group of jazz performers in 2007. The article originally appeared in Allegro, Volume CVIII, No. 2, in February, 2008 by Todd Bryant Weeks Twenty-four-year-old Colin Dean is an 802 member, jazz bassist, bandleader, composer, and a recent graduate …
Building Trust
How the Union is Stepping Up Its Justice for Jazz Artists! Campaign by Todd Bryant Weeks When we regard our AFM local with an unclouded eye, one of the things with which we must come to terms is the notion that despite our shared vision of a democratic, unbiased body that serves all of its …
J4JA! Update
Over 800 musicians have signed our Justice for Jazz Artists! (J4JA!) petition to get benefits in the NY area jazz clubs. Most have come in via the J4JA website, the Broadway pit orchestras, and a Constant Contact mailing from earlier this month. Many signatures have also been procured by musicians. Recent prominent signers include: Regina …
