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John Fenton

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Jazz Journalist (professional- voting member)
First name
John
Last name
Fenton
photo/avatar
City
Auckland
Country
New Zealand
I am a jazz
  • writer
  • photographer
  • film maker/videographer
  • other
"Other" means. . .
Jazz Local 32 (google)
website/blog URL 1
website/blog URL 2
You Tube; 'Jazz Local 32' channel
Follow me on Twitter at:
@jazzlocal32
I am the author/producer of
Blog posts, poetry, liner notes, photography
Available at (URL or ISBN #1)
JohnFentonPoetry.com
Other key Publications/Productions
My blog is syndicated on a number of sites and is often quoted from in local and occasionally offshore media. Main alternate source for my 'Jazz Local 32' blog is the 'Creative Jazz Club' website; www.creativejazzclub.co.nz/
My interests in jazz are:
New Zealand improvised music (and some Australian), but I have a broad scope of interest and will try to promote what ever I feel is 'good Jazz' -(Armstrong to Zorn) - I hold few prejudices (except for lazy uncommitted music and music directed by marketing gurus). Jazz is at its best a restless outreaching music and it should always challenge us to open our ears a bit wider - even when the familiar is encountered. Lastly I am passionate about the Jazz Arts; especially Jazz poetry and cover art.
More about what I do:
I am the creator/host/author of one New Zealand's only Jazz Blogs; JazzLocal32.com The blog has been around since 2010 and it gets a good hit rate (and from 43 countries). It is grows steadily each year. It is archived by the National Archives which which means a record of Auckland's contemporary Jazz scene is preserved. I write poetry, liner notes, articles, take photographic records of gigs and recording dates and occasionally guest in radio shows. I have a day job as a public servant.
I support the JJA because
The Jazz community is a treasure beyond estimation. This is life changing music and in my experience it attracts the best of human beings. I see the dissemination of this music as shared enterprise and the Jazz Journalists Association is a way to unify those telling the stories. I am impressed that the JJA makes an effort to involve me in activities even although I live at the bottom of the world. Well done JJA (and keep up the snippets of social commantary - it matters).
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