Bill Milkowski | |
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 Milkowski receives the Bruce Lundvall Award from Andre Ménard of the Montreal Jazz Festival. | |
| Born | September 26, 1954 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Website | www |
Bill Milkowski (born September 26, 1954) is an American jazz critic, journalist, and biographer. Since the 1970s he has written thousands of articles for magazines and album liner notes.[1][2] He has written for DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, The Absolute Sound, Paste, Jazzthing (in Germany) and Guitar Club (in Italy).[3][4] He is the author of a biography of bassist Jaco Pastorius, a biography of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, an annotated history of jive music, a collection of interviews.,[1][2] and a biography of saxophonist-composer Michael Brecker.
In 2018, Milkowski was part of a "Jazz Democracy" panel discussion at the United Nations for International Jazz Day.[5][6] He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2011.[7] He received the Bruce Lundvall Award from the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2015.[8]
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- ^ "JJA at the UN for International Jazz Day". JJA News. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "2011 Nominees and Winners JJA Awards". Jazz Journalists Association. Retrieved 26 December 2018..
- ^ "Bill Milkowski Receives the Bruce Lundvall Award". La Scena Musical. 2015-07-06. Retrieved 26 December 2018..