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Dan OuellettE'S MONTHLY COLUMN J & B Intel

Check out my latest Jazz & Beyond Intel columns on jazz music. Photo: MIchael Luppino. writer

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Dan OuellettE'S MONTHLY COLUMN J & B Intel

Check out my latest Jazz & Beyond Intel columns on jazz music. Photo: MIchael Luppino. writer

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It all started with the Beatles and over the years grew into jazz. Music was always a passion, and as I grew older I found how much I loved writing about the music I was hearing. Then the writing became a passion. What a perfect match.

Dan splits his time between his house in Shelter Island and brownstone apartment in Harlem on East 126th Street right across the street from the stoop that photographer Art Kane took the iconic photo A Great Day in Harlem. writer

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Dan Ouellette is a New York-based writer, author, journalist, editor, curator and speaker with an expertise in jazz music as well as “beyond jazz” music includes significant archival interviews with Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, John Lee Hooker, David Byrne, Allison Kraus, T-Bone Burnett, Joni Mitchell and others. Dan travg els the world covering music. His explorations include Beijing, Cape Town (South Africa), Melbourne (Australia), Mali, Istanbul, Canada (Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec City), the Mississippi Delta jukejoints, Austria, and Italy (Genova, Perugia and Orvieto).

Curator, Interviewer

Dan has served as a project manager, a co-producer of audio/video projects (including between-show content at the Monterey Jazz Festival) and a chronicler of artist conversations in front of a live audience at major jazz festivals including Monterey and North Sea Jazz Festival.

Dan’s sizable catalog of recorded interviews from 1985 to present are being archived at California State University, Monterey Bay. He was nominated for the Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism honors in 2019 by the Jazz Journalism Association.

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As writer, author and storyteller, I write tales about musicians and their artistry based on my conversations with them. My speciality is jazz music. I am available for writing bios, feature stories and guest speaking in conversation with artists.

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My column Jazz & Beyond Intel will go live once a month. News of this will go out via social media. Stay tuned: April's lead will relate to guitarists.

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Michelle Kuypers North Sea Jazz Festival: "You have been very dedicated to the program at the festival for so many years –I very much like the way you make the musicians you interview (both in interview as in the Blindfold Test) at ease and the space you give them to talk freely, and by doing so trigger them to reveal quite a bit of themselves-. Because of this your interviews always have been a pleasure to attend and listen to. This also having been the reason I have invited you to North Sea Jazz, after first having been impressed by the Down Beat Blindfold Test you had live in Anaheim during the IAJE conference of 2002."

"What astounds me about Dan's interviewing is the depth and breadth of his knowledge, and then somehow asking the key - usually simply phrased - question and listening with perfect timing to get the unique, illuminating answer." ——Bob Danziger is a regional film maker, musician, composer and writer, living and working in the Monterey area. In 2011 California State University at Monterey Bay (CSUMB) awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts for Music, Invention and Pioneering Sustainable Energy.

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Dan OuellettE'S MONTHLY COLUMN J & B Intel

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