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February 2005:
Michael and Lori Fagien, owners of Jazziz
Magazine, have a nice franchise put together. The South Florida-based company
now has their own state-of-the-art jazz bistro which showcases top talent.
Last month Gato Barbieri played the restaurant, and this month Lee
Ritenour is scheduled to make an appearance. I may have to make a trip
down there to see Spyro Gyra later this year. The Fagiens’ magazine has
grown to be the largest publication for jazz music in the world (yes,
bigger than Downbeat and Jazz Times). During the 1990s
there was a progressive editorial shift at the magazine which led to a lot of
features on creative jazz
musician. David S. Ware made the cover in October of 1998
(Steve Dollar was the author of the article) and Matthew Shipp had been
featured on the cover previous to this. In August of 1999, Dante Sawyer made the
move from Gainesville, Florida to New York City to work with Editor Larry Blumenfeld on the features
for the magazine. The
next year he wrote the cover story on bassist William Parker (one of the topics
was the masterclass I had organized for William over the summer of
2000). Boca Raton-based Editors Fernando Gonzalez and Michael Koretzky
now are open minded enough to accept most of the developments in the
current avant-garde community of New York's City's Downtown Manhattan. The bi-monthly ‘Inside Out’
column features some wonderful free-jazz musicians. A big plus of a
Jazziz magazine
subscription is that the magazine does in fact come with a free companion
CD each month.
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