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Ted Panken

Brooklyn

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist, jazz historian, runs the blog "Today Is The Question."

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  • 2 weeks ago | downbeat.com | Ted Panken

    Interview, From the Magazine, Bill Goodwin By Ted Panken   I  Jun. 10, 2025 Drummer Bill Goodwin, who turned 83 three days after his first Blindfold Test, has played with, known and heard just about anyone who’s anyone during a 65-year career in the jazz business that launched with a 1959 engagement with Charles Lloyd in Los Angeles, Goodwin’s hometown.

  • 3 weeks ago | downbeat.com | Ted Panken

    By Ted Panken   I  Jun. 3, 2025 In the spring and summer of 2000, while reporting a DownBeat profile framed around James Moody’s 75th birthday concert with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, I asked him to explain how he made the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, and flute, each sound like his primary instrument. “I need to practice them,” Moody responded crisply. “You play one horn because you like its sound.

  • 1 month ago | downbeat.com | Ted Panken

    News, Marcus Shelby, Various Artists By Ted Panken   I  May. 20, 2025 Before Marcus Shelby added Artistic Director of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival to his c.v. in 2021, he’d established a consequential cultural footprint in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he’s functioned as a first-call freelance bassist since he moved there in 1996.

  • 1 month ago | jazziz.com | Ted Panken

    Branford Marsalis and Ricky Riccardi dispel misconceptions about Louis Armstrong during a misunderstood era in his career.

  • 2 months ago | jazziz.com | Ted Panken

    Six of today’s finest jazz singers discuss their 1950s favorites. By Ted Panken While the ecosystem of jazz- and jazz-adjacent singing in the 1950s contains too many layers to be unpacked here, six high-level practitioners of the idiom spoke to JAZZIZ about specifically inspirational artists, albums and tracks from that era. Their remarks reveal some... You must be a member to access this content. Already a member? Log in here

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