JAZZ INDUSTRY IN AMERICA, 21st CENTURY, by Cyril Moshkow

The second, enhanced edition of the book on the jazz segment of American music industry reflects dramatic change in the music business since the 2008 first edition. Written by jazz journalist Cyril Moshkow, editor and publisher at Russia’s Jazz.Ru Magazine, the book is an overview of the American jazz community not from the performers’ point of view, but rather the music industry persons’, those who help the music happen. Largely unseen by the audience, the industry people are as much important in creating jazz music and bringing it to the audiences as anybody. Educators, club owners, festival organizers, producers, sound engineers, record label executives, jazz researchers, jazz critics, journalists and broadcasters all have their voice in a series of in-person interviews on which the book is based. This is the first original research on the topic not only in Russia, but in the world as well.

ISBN 978-5-8114-0852-8

Since 1998, Cyril Moshkow works as editor (since 2006, also as publisher) at Jazz.Ru, Moscow-based Russia’s only jazz magazine. His first jazz book, Jazz Industry in America, was published in Russian by Planeta Muzyki, the St. Petersburg-based branch of Russia’s Lan publishing house, in 2008. The book was based on a collection of more than 40 in-person and several more phone and email interviews with American jazz educators, club owners, festival organizers, scholars, radio presenters, record label executives, producers, sound engineers and others who create and support jazz. The first edition sold well, and revealed demand for the second, enhanced edition, titled Jazz Industry in America, 21st Century. About 15 interviews were added, and several chapters were totally rewritten, as the music industry experienced dramatic shifts in the past five years.

From 1998 to 2012, Cyril took 15 trips to the U.S., most of them self-supported (some 35 weeks in total) to meet people in the jazz industry for interviews, and visit jazz festivals, clubs, schools, and organizations in 12 states and in D.C. Most of the pictures in the book were taken by himself, unless noted otherwise in individual captions.

Cyril Moshkow wrote and co-wrote three other books on music: The Jazz Greats (2009,) The Blues, Introduction To The History (2010,) and Russian Jazz (2013.)

Jazz Industry in America, 21st Century book contents:

JAZZ EDUCATION. TEACHING JAZZ IN AMERICA: WHO, AND HOW
The History of Jazz Education: a Brief Overview
Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
New School University Jazz Program, NYC
Manhattan School of Music: Raising an Universal Musician
Life’s Everywhere: Other Schools
American Jazz Education Today: More Facts and Figures

JAZZ AND THE AUDIENCES: FESTIVALS, CONCERTS, AND CLUBS
Festivals and Concerts: Who Does It, and How
Stadium Jazz? They Can Do It In Idaho
Jazz Institute of Chicago: «Live and Die in Collaboration With...»
SFJAZZ: Healthy Commercial Approach
Kingston Jazz Festival: «Jazz Requires Passion»
Patricia Nicholson-Parker: «Idealism Is Very Practical»
George Wein: «Commercialism Plus Artistic Integrity»
Living Tradition. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

THE MYTH OF AMERICAN JAZZ CLUBS
John Dimitriou, Seattle’s Jazz Alley
Joe Segal, The Jazz Showcase: «There’s Many Good Musicians, But No Giants Anymore»
Michael Dorf. The One Who Run the Knitting Factory
The Culture We Pay For

JAZZ IN THE CITY
The National Capital’s Jazz Scene
Philly Jazz: Past and Present

RECORDED JAZZ: PRODUCERS AND ENGINEERS
What Is Changing in How Jazz Is Recorded?
Recording Trends: American Jazz Journalists On The New Sounds
Rudy Van Gelder: An Age Behind The Console
Tom Lazarus: An Universal Engineer
Jim Anderson: «To Record What I Like»
George Avakian, Member of the Lenin Order
Bob Karcy: Arkadia Records As a Team
John Zorn And His Tzadik
Michael Cuscuna, Master of Reissues
Blue Note. History of a Great Label
Teo Macero, The Sound Innovator
Gerry Teekens: European Producer of American Jazz
Grammy: Jazz, Among Other Musics

JAZZOLOGY: JAZZ RESEARCH IN AMERICA
Who Needs an Institute of Jazz Studies?
Jazz Archive of Chicago: Know How
Son of Father: Bruce Raeburn at the New Orleans Jazz Archive
National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Face Towards General Public
There’s Life Everywhere: University of Idaho Jazz Collections

JAZZ IN THE MEDIA. RADIO AND PRESS
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune: Jazz Not About Money
Down Beat. Eight Decades of Jazz History
Internet and Jazz: Wayne Saroyan’s Experience
Jazz Radio: WBGO, KCSM, and Other Four-Letter Words
Jazz and TV: Did Jazz Help Jazz Much?
Why Jazz Journalists Need an Association
Images of Jazz, and Those Who Create Them

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