Howard Mandel

Howard Mandel writes primarily about jazz, blues, new and unusual music. He's the author of Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008) as well as the senior editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree/Billboard Books, 2005) and has contributed extensively to DownBeat, The Wire (UK), Swing Journal and Jazz Life (both Japan), Bravo! (Brazil), Ear magazine, SignaltoNoise and many other publications. President of the Jazz Journalists Association, Mandel lives in Chicago after 32 years in NYC. He is an arts reporter for National Public Radio, and taught at New York University from 1986 to 2014. He also blogs at ArtsJournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz, plays reeds and winds, blues piano and analog synthesizers.