| Most Recent Newsletter | February 2012
 | Have you heard? It's outrageous! For this year NARAS, the organization that gives the annual Grammy Awards, has cut 31 categories. Among the genres most affected are Latin Jazz, R&B, Zydeco/Cajun, Mexican, Native American, Gospel, and World Music, Do you see a pattern here? |
Past Newsletters | | January 2012 | Wow, is that Newt Gingrich guy really something, or what? I mean, he's accomplished more in one ... |
| December 2011 | I've always wondered, when the three wise men brought that Jesus kid those gifts of gold, franki ... |
| November 2011 | Texas Toast" Unbuttered: A Guide to Understanding Rick Perry ... |
| October 2011 | Bob's List: 10 Movie Quotes That Should be on T-Shirts (because I have nothing particular to say ... |
| September 2011 | Maybe you heard — last weekend we had a hurricane in the eastern US. ... |
| August 2011 | As you probably heard by now, tenor saxophonist-composer-arranger Frank Foster died on July 26 at th ... |
| July 2011 | This year, "Just Jazz, Inc." (a subsidiary of jazzbob.com) is dedicating its Summer Film Festival to ... |
| June 2011 | Regular listeners to "Just Jazz" on 91.9 WNTI or wnti.org are familiar with my "Just Jazz Presents.. ... |
| May 2011 | In April the Recording Academy announced that for 2012 it has cut its Grammy Awards categories from ... |
| April 2011 | You've heard the news: just because some mugs in Congress hate pubic radio — I mean really hate ... |
| March 2011 | Last year marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of pianist, composer, and arranger Mary ... |
| February 2011 | Last month I attended the second annual Jazz Education Network conference in New Orleans. It was a b ... |
| January 2011 | Well, the blizzard that hit the NYC-NJ area the day after Christmas kept me from doing my annual "Th ... |
| December 2010 | This is the final newsletter of the year and that means it's time for my "Best New Jazz CDs of 2 ... |
| November 2010 | "Janet Jackson says despite winning numerous Grammy Awards, gracing the big and small screens and ha ... |
| October 2010 | This month marks the 80th anniversary of "Body and Soul." Jazz instrumentalists and singers particul ... |
| September 2010 | "Friending." To quote Henry Higgins: "I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?" I'll tell you ... |
| August 2010 | Anyone who knows me, knows that there is no one in the jazz world whom I hold in higher regard than ... |
| July 2010 | Abrazos y besos to my friend, singer Amanda Martinez. A
Toronto native and a rising star on t ... |
| June 2010 | From May 20 to 22 I had the great joy of attending the
inaugural conference of the Jazz Educa ... |
| May 2010 | Welcome to "Bob's List." What is "Bob's List?" Something
I'm going to subject you ... |
| April 2010 | I've been trying to think of a way to increase my listening audience, to "broaden my base," as t ... |
| March 2010 | For more than five decades pianist Morris Nanton performed in clubs, lounges, and restaurants throug ... |
| February 2010 | Last month I received news of the passing of two eminent members of our jazz community, two lives we ... |
| January 2010 | News Item #1:
An angry purist attending the Sigüenza Jazz Festival in Spain called the police ... |
| December 2009 | One of the things I enjoy most this time of year is putting together my two special year-end Just ... |
| November 2009 | Did you know there was a New Jersey Hall of Fame? Well,there is, and this year Count Basie and Les P ... |
| October 2009 | Trumpeter Valery Ponomarev had a dream: to play with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. But Valery li ... |
| Septermber 2009 | My friend, saxophonist Sue Terry, is someone who always has something valuable to say, something wor ... |
| August 2009 | On July 6, Oscar Gustave Mayer, retired chairman of one of the world's most famous wiener and co ... |
| July 2009 | I have something very special planned for my Just Jazz program of July 5. Since it's 4th of July ... |
| June 2009 | I'm delighted to announce that on Sunday, June 14, I'll be joined in the Just Jazz studio by ... |
| May 2006 | At the end of March I attended Slide Factory 2009, a terrific classical and jazz trombone festival i ... |
| Aprl 2008 | April 29 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Duke Ellington. And so, to commemorate Duke' ... |
| March 2009 | It's up and running and ready for you: my new website! I'm very happy with the design and ab ... |
| February 2009 | For February I'm doing something a bit different with my "Just Jazz Artist of the Month." For th ... |
| January 2009 | The Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra once told a teammate, who suggested they eat at a popular restau ... |
| December 2008 | Four years ago, only a week or so before Christmas, I had gotten back to Brooklyn on the Monday afte ... |
