Nate Chinen, author portrait
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Nate Chinen

Nate Chinen has been writing about jazz for more than twenty years. He spent a dozen of them working as a critic for The New York Times and helmed a long-running column for JazzTimes. As the director of editorial content at WBGO, he works with the multiplatform program Jazz Night in America and contributes a range of coverage to NPR Music. A twelve-time winner of the Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing presented by the Jazz Journalists Asso­ciation, Chinen is also coauthor of Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, the autobiography of impre­sario George Wein. He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
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International Jazz Day 2020

During these increasingly uncertain times, people are turning more to the arts to try and alleviate stress and cope with the world around them. While music generally has the ability to reduce anxiety and fight depression, certain genres such as jazz have also acted historically to promote peace, dialogue among cultures, and respect for human rights

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