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Rick Mitchell

Member profile details

Membership level

Jazz Journalist (professional- voting member)

First name

Rick

Last name

Mitchell

City

Portland

Country

USA

I am a jazz

writer
other
radio/tv program host/producer

"Other" means. . .

teacher/artistic director/talent buyer/percussionist

website/blog URL 1

www.rickmitchell.us

website/blog URL 2

www.dharmamoon.net

I am the author/producer of

Jazz In the New Millennium: Live & Well (Dharma Moon Press 2014)

Available at (URL or ISBN #1)

www.rickmitchell.us and Da Camera of Houston

I am also the author/ producer of:

Jazz In the New Millennium (syndicated radio program)

Available at (URL or ISBN #2)

African American Public Radio Consortium and as a podcast at KBOO.FM

Other key Publications/Productions

Whiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas HonkyTonk (University of Texas Press, 2007)

My interests in jazz are:

Deep, man.

More about what I do:

longtime freelance writer
former music critic at the Houston Chronicle and The Portland Oregonian
annotator for Da Camera of Houston
Pacifica Radio host
half-ass conga drummer
high school English teacher
former artistic director of the Houston International Festival

I support the JJA because

I am a jazz journalist.