It’s a bright spot in current jazz and jazz journalism — more women and higher profiles for them in lead roles throughout the ecosystem, across the country.1
In this episode of The Buzz: The Jazz Journalists Association’s podcast I talk with Chrys Roney, who acquired Hot House Jazz magazine early in 2024 and has raised its game (she is, by the way, sister of the late trumpeter Wallace Roney),
and Rayna Mathis, who edits monthly Earshot Jazz, publication of Seattle’s festival-presenting organization. They are candid and forthcoming about their work.
Speaking of Earshot Jazz — congratulations to John Gilbreath, retiring as executive director after a 33 year-tenure. And speaking of Chrys Roney’s brilliant brother Wallace Roney, here he’s age 29, with tenor saxophonist Bill Pierce, pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Ira Coleman, in the quintet of unforgettable drummer Tony Williams (Bill Milkowski’s remembrance).
Here’s to the end of a year with ups and downs — a lot of both. I wish everyone reading and everyone not the very best of life to come. And don’t look back, but with a rousing jolt of Boomer mythos Like a Complete Unknown brings it all back home.
Platforms highlighting and supporting this development include the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice in Boston, Women in Jazz Media (UK founded, with U.S. correspondents), Brooklyn-based Women In Jazz Organization, and longer-established Women in Jazz-South Florida, Women in Jazz Association, Inc. - Austin, and International Women in Jazz,
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