Jersey Jazz Magazine
Discover these highlights in the July/August 2025 issue of Jersey Jazz:
- Jazz History: Oscar Peterson
- Joe Farnsworth's "Big Room"
- Rising Star: Ben Collins-Siegel
- Summer Festivals: Nyack and Morristown
In Memoriam
Mitchell Seidel
March 12, 1957 – June 2, 2025
VP Music Programming
Jazz scholar, journalist, and photographer
Thank you for your decades long service to NJJS and to the world of jazz.
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William Paterson Summer Jazz
July 13, 2025
In 1969, Oscar Peterson released an album called Motions and Emotions on the MPS Records label. One of the tracks was the Antonio Carlos Jobim tune, “Wave”, and the writer Gene Lees sought to find out who the guitarist was.

