Neil Tesser
Neil Tesser (* 1951 ) is an American jazz journalist and writer who lives in Chicago .
Tesser has been reporting on Chicago jazz for more than 40 years; he has written for the Chicago Sun-Times , Chicago Reader, and USA Today , as well as Playboy and Rolling Stone ; he also designed programs for the Chicago radio station WBEZ-FM and the National Public Radio . He is also an associate editor of the Down Beat . His book Playboy Guide to Jazz was published in 1998. He has written liner notes for more than 350 albums ; In 2013 he published a biography of Gary Burton ( Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton ). He is also a faculty member at the Chicago School of Theater & Music at the University of Illinois . He was Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences .
Prizes and awards
In 2001 he received a Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP . For his radio work he was awarded the first Willis Conover Award from the Jazz Journalists Association and in 2012 was also nominated for its Lifetime Achievement Award for a Jazz Journalist. In 2014 he received a Grammy for his liner notes for the reissued Afro Blue Impressions album by John Coltrane .
Web links
- Entry at the University of Illinois
- Chicago's Neil Tesser wins Grammy Chicago Reader, February 4, 2014
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tesser, Neil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |