Bill Milkowski

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Bill Milkowski (right) at the 2015 Bruce Lundvall Awards

Bill Milkowski (born September 26, 1954 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American journalist , music producer , guitarist, radio presenter and jazz author. Not least because of his Jaco Pastorius biography, he is considered one of the most competent authors on jazz rock .

Life

Milkowski began playing the guitar at the age of twelve and was involved with rock and jazz guitarists. During his journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee , where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1977, he was editor of the campus newspaper in 1975 and in 1976 as an employee of the Milwaukee Journal . He then co-founded the bi-weekly alternative city ​​magazine Cityside , which was modeled after the Chicago Reader and the Village Voice and was published in Milwaukee from 1977 to 1979. After a brief stint at Milwaukee Magazine , he moved to New York in 1980 to become executive director of Good Times magazine . After two years of writing there about music, theater and film, he began working as a freelance writer in 1982.

In the following years Milkowski wrote regularly for the magazines JazzTimes , Modern Drummer, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Jazziz, Audio, Pulse Guitar Club, Jazzthing and the magazine Fi , as well as numerous liner notes for albums for musicians and bands like Joe Henderson ( So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles) ), Bennie Wallace ( The Art of the Saxophone ), Weather Report , Yellowjackets , Al Di Meola , Michael Formanek , Ivo Perelman , John Coltrane , Joe Pass , Hank Crawford , Sylvie Courvoisier or Gato Barbieri . He is also the author of JACO: The Extraordinary Life And Times Of Jaco Pastorius (Miller Freeman Books, 1995) and Rockers, Jazzbos & Visionaries . As a producer he was u. a. for Pat Martino ( All Sides Now , Blue Note 1998), Phil de Gruy ( Innuendo Out The Other (NYC Records, 1995)) and for the productions Come Together: A Guitar Tribute to The Beatles (NYC Records, 1993 with Mike Mainieri ) , Who Loves You: A Tribute To Jaco Pastorius (JVC Records, 2001) and World Christmas (Metro Blue, 1996).

1991/92 he worked at the co-hosted Blues telecast The Other Half on radio station WNYE with. After recovering from cancer, he lived in New Orleans from 1993 to 1996 , where he worked as a presenter on WWOZ's program Milkman's Matinee . He has lived in the Washington Heights neighborhood since returning to New York . As a guitarist, he worked in 1996 on the album Valley Of Christmas by Andrei Codrescu and Mark Bingham .

Awards

  • In 2011 he was honored with the JJA Jazz Awards for his life's work .
  • 2015: Bruce Lundvall Award

Fonts

  • Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius (1st ed.). Backbeat Books, 1995. ISBN 0-87930-361-1 .
  • Rockers, Jazzbos and Visionaries . Billboard Books, 1998
  • Swing It! An Annotated History of Jive . Watson-Guptill Publications 2001-03 ISBN 0-8230-7671-7

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ A collection of interviews and a. with Keith Richards , Stevie Ray Vaughan , Carlos Santana , Dr. John , Branford and Wynton Marsalis , David Murray , John McLaughlin , Jimmy Smith , Brian Eno , John Zorn , Milford Graves and Frank Zappa

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait at All About Jazz ( Memento from February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Bill Milkowski at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ a b Bill Milkowski at Discogs (English)
  4. ^ Portrait of Brian Soergel in JazzTimes
  5. ↑ 2011 Nominees & Winners. In: JJA Jazz Awards 2019. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Bill Milkowski receives the Bruce Lundvall Award. Retrieved July 7, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Milkowski, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin